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Encyclopedia > Queen Elizabeth Islands

The Queen Elizabeth Islands (formerly known as the Parry Islands) form the northern part of the Canadian arctic islands, lying in Nunavut and Northwest Territories in Canada.


Many of the islands are among the largest in the world, the largest being Ellesmere Island. Other major islands include Amund Ringnes Island, Axel Heiberg Island, Bathurst Island, Borden Island, Cornwallis Island, Devon Island, Eglinton Island, Ellef Ringnes Island, Melville Island and Prince Patrick Island.


Most of the islands are uninhabited, but their main industry is oil drilling. Many were explored by William Parry, after whom they were formerly named.


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Queen Elizabeth Islands (476 words)
The Queen Elizabeth Islands, NWT/Nunavut, are a group of islands in the Canadian ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO lying north of a great bathometric trench composed of (east to west) LANCASTER SOUND, Barrow Strait, Viscount Melville Sound and M'Clure Strait.
The islands are further grouped as the PARRY ISLANDS (Prince Patrick, Melville, Mackenzie King, Borden, Bathurst and Lougheed) and the SVERDRUP ISLANDS (Ellef Ringnes, Amund Ringnes, Axel Heiberg, Cornwall and Meighen).
The occupation of the Queen Elizabeth Islands by the Inuit is fairly recent.
Queen Elizabeth Islands (200 words)
The Queen Elizabeth Islands are a group of islands at the top of the ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO.
In the east, the islands tend to be high and dramatic.
The hamlet of RESOLUTE lies on Cornwallis Island and GRISE FIORD is on the south coast of Ellesmere Island.
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