Queen Elizabeth Islands

American  

[kween i-liz-uh-buhth ahy-luhndz] / ˈkwin ɪˈlɪz ə bəθ ˈaɪ ləndz /

plural noun

1. a group of islands, including Ellesmere Island, in the Arctic Ocean, in the northern Northwest Territories, in northern Canada.

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Queen Elizabeth Islands British  

plural noun

1. a group of islands off the N coast of Canada: the northernmost islands of the Canadian Arctic archipelago, lying N of latitude 74°N; part of Nunavut. Area: about 390 000 sq km (150 000 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

A few remote places like Antarctica still exist as true wilderness: the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic, pockets of the Mato Grosso bush in central Brazil, bits of the Tibetan Plateau.

From Time Magazine Archive