Queen Elizabeth Islands

Etymology
. Named after, 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

 * 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.

Hyponyms

 * the islands lying north of and along the Parry Channel
 * the islands lying north of and along the Parry Channel
 * the islands lying against the Arctic Ocean, to the north of the Parry Islands, not including Ellesmere and close islets
 * group Ellesmere and surrounding islets