Queen Elizabeth Islands

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.

Queen Elizabeth Islands

1. 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.

• Parry Islands (dated)
• Parry Archipelago (dated)

• Canadian Arctic Archipelago
• Arctic
• Canada
• North America
• Americas
• New World
• Western Hemisphere
• Northern Hemisphere

• Parry Islands (the islands lying north of and along the Parry Channel)
• Parry Archipelago (the islands lying north of and along the Parry Channel)
• Sverdrup Islands (the islands lying against the Arctic Ocean, to the north of the Parry Islands, not including Ellesmere and close islets)
• Ellesmere Island group (Ellesmere and surrounding islets)