Queen Elizabeth Islands Queen Elizabeth Islands The Queen Elizabeth Islands (; formerly Parry Islands or Parry Archipelago) are the northernmost cluster of islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, split between Nunavut and Northwest Territories in Northern Canada. The Queen Elizabeth Islands contain approximately 14% of the global glacier and ice cap area. (excluding the inland and shelf ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica). The islands, together in area, were renamed as a group after Elizabeth II on her coronation as Queen of Canada in 1953. The islands cover an area approximating to the shape of a right triangle, bounded by the Nares Strait
MS Queen Elizabeth MS Queen Elizabeth MS "Queen Elizabeth" (QE) is a cruise ship of the Vista class operated by the Cunard Line. The design is modified from that of previous ships of that class, and slightly larger than "Queen Victoria", at , largely due to a more vertical stern. The ship is able to carry up to 2092 passengers. The ship's name was announced by Cunard on 10 October 2007. Since the retirement of "Queen Elizabeth 2" in 2008 the company has operated three vessels. The naming of the ship as "Queen Elizabeth" brings about a situation similar to that between 1940