Queen Elizabeth Islands

English

Etymology

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.

Proper noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

• 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)