Queen Elizabeth Islands on the east, Parry Channel on the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north and west. Most are uninhabited although the Natural Resources Canada's Climate Change Geoscience Program Earth Sciences Sector (ESS), has monitors on the islands. In 1969 Panarctic Oils, now part of Suncor began operating exploration oil wells in the Sverdrup and Franklinian basins and planned on establishing its resource base in the Queen Elizabeth Islands. It ceased production in the 1970s. At the 2013 GeoConvention the Arctic Islands region were called Canada's perpetual "last petroleum exploration frontier". Hogg and Enachescu argued that the development and implementation
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