Queen Elizabeth Islands that are now completely part of the Northwest Territories. Below the level of the territory, there is the municipal level of administration. On that level, there are only two municipalities, Resolute and Grise Fiord, with an aggregate area of (0.11 percent of the area of the Queen Elizabeth Islands), but with most of the population of the archipelago (370 out of 375). The remaining 99.89 percent are unincorporated area, with a census 2006 population of five, all in Alert. According to the Atlas of Canada there are 34 larger and 2,092 smaller islands in the archipelago. With the exception of
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) second period of sea trials, she was accompanied by the Type 45 destroyer . "Queen Elizabeth" returned to Portsmouth on 21 November 2017 to prepare for her official commissioning ceremony, which was held on 7 December 2017. Following the ship's commissioning, she underwent a period of defect correction in Portsmouth; one instance was a leak through a seal in one of the propeller shafts, which the Royal Navy stated was not serious enough to keep "Queen Elizabeth" from her planned programme. On 2 February 2018, "Queen Elizabeth" sailed from Portsmouth for a second time, for a six-week deployment to undergo