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
Queen Elizabeth Islands Ellesmere Island, they fall into two groups, the Sverdrup Islands and the Parry Islands: The Queen Elizabeth Islands contain four glaciers that represent c.14% of all glaciers and ice caps in the world. According to a 2011 report, the largest of the four, the Devon Ice Cap measured (northwest sector only); the Meighen Ice Cap measured ; the Melville South Ice Cap measured and the White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island glacier was . The size of these glaciers has been measured since 1961 and their results published in such distinguished journals as the International Glaciological Society's "Annals of Glaciology." Of