Queen Elizabeth Islands the four ice caps that the federal government's NRCan's Climate Change Geoscience Program Earth Sciences Sector (ESS), monitors onsite in the Canadian High Arctic, three are in the Queen Elizabeth Islands: Devon, Meighen and Melville. In a memo to Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) in Canada's High Arctic indicates that shrinking of ice caps started in the late 1980s, and has accelerated rapidly since 2005," says an October 2013 memo to NRCan's deputy minister, who reports to federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. The increased melt rate was confirmed by University of California, Irvine in 2017. Computer analysis of a glacier
MS Queen Elizabeth On 13 August 2016 Queen Elizabeth made the 2,500th cruise ship call at Kiel, Germany. On 6 July 2017, during a cruise around the British Isles, "Queen Elizabeth" encountered the new Royal Navy aircraft carrier in the Moray Firth, during the warship's initial sea trials. 13 January 2011:<br> Two years after the first Cunard Royal Rendezvous, RMS "Queen Mary 2" met up with "Queen Victoria" and the then brand new "Queen Elizabeth" for another Royal Rendezvous in New York City. Both "Queen Victoria" and "Queen Elizabeth" made an Atlantic crossing in tandem for the event. All three Cunarders met in