Queen Elizabeth Islands on the east, Parry Channel on the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north and west. Most are uninhabited although the Natural Resources Canada's Climate Change Geoscience Program Earth Sciences Sector (ESS), has monitors on the islands. In 1969 Panarctic Oils, now part of Suncor began operating exploration oil wells in the Sverdrup and Franklinian basins and planned on establishing its resource base in the Queen Elizabeth Islands. It ceased production in the 1970s. At the 2013 GeoConvention the Arctic Islands region were called Canada's perpetual "last petroleum exploration frontier". Hogg and Enachescu argued that the development and implementation
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) (SRVL) by an F-35 was undertaken on 14th October - this was also the first operational demonstration of the technique on a ship at sea, and is planned as the primary method of recovering fixed-wing aircraft aboard the "Queen Elizabeth" class. On 19 October 2018, "Queen Elizabeth" arrived in New York City for a planned seven day visit, during which Commodore Kyd handed command of the ship over to Captain Nick Cooke-Priest. She dropped anchor near Ellis and Liberty Islands in Upper New York Bay. During the ship's stopover, it played host to a forum hosted by Gavin Williamson, the