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 and 1948, when Cunard's original "Queen Elizabeth" was in service at the same time as the Royal Navy battleship . The Royal Navy's aircraft carrier went to sea the summer of 2017, six and a half years after the cruise ship entered service. "Queen Elizabeth" is almost identical in design to "Queen Victoria", although because of the steeper stern, her introduction into service the passenger capacity was slightly higher with up to 2,058 compared to "Queen Victoria's" 2,014. Also unlike many previous Cunard Queens, "Queen Elizabeth" is not a true ocean liner as she does not have the heavy plating