Queen Elizabeth Islands en · PROPN
Etymology
From Queen Elizabeth + islands. Named after Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada; renamed in honour of her coronation as Queen (Empress) of the British Empire. The island cluster was formerly the Parry Islands / Parry Archipelago, which subsequently were restricted to referring to the southernmost islands of the island cluster, running along the Parry Channel.
Meanings
- An archipelago that is a component of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, the northern islands north of the Parry Channel (the Straight East-West Northwest Passage), west of the Nares Strait, and bounded on the north and west by the Arctic Ocean.
Hypernyms
Arctic · Western Hemisphere · New World · Canada · Americas · Northern Hemisphere · Canadian Arctic Archipelago · North America
Hyponyms
Parry Archipelago · Parry Islands · Ellesmere Island group · Sverdrup Islands