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 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