Another retired worker was more optimistic, citing the long history of shipbuilding on the Queen's Island.
And with a final wave to the soaked crowd gathered around her, the new queen of Easter Island slides off her throne and disappears into the night, to the party that surely awaits.
Nearly 2, 000 years ago, the indigenous Northwest people inhabited the remote Anthony Island as well as other spits of land that make up the Queen Charlotte Islands, sandwiched between the Hecate Strait and the Pacific. (In the Haida tongue, Anthony Island is known as SGang Gwaay and Queen Charlotte is Haida Gwaii.) The tribes' people, whose population likely peaked at more than 7, 000 archipelago-wide, were Neptunes of the sea.
The "forward island" of HMS Queen Elizabeth, known as Upper Block 07, contains the main bridge of the ship.
Guernsey's Culture and Leisure minister says he is confident a statue of the Queen will be put up in the island.
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It dates back to 1565 when Queen Elizabeth I granted a fief for the island, on condition that it was kept free of pirates and occupied by at least 40 men who could carry arms.
Jersey Tourism has said it hopes to use the Queen's Diamond Jubilee to attract visitors from Europe to the island.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg comforted victims and relatives alongside Norway's King Harald, Queen Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon in the town of Sundvollen, near Utoeya island.
Sark's system of government dates back to 1565 when Queen Elizabeth I granted "letters patent" to the first seigneur to hold the island as a "royal fief".
The large eggs of the island population, Dr Jaisson suggests, require so much effort that one queen, or even several, would be unable to keep a colony going.
Two days before the Leeds disaster, the stands erupted at Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad's cricket ground for the island's football team, which beat Panama 6-0, their third successive victory in World Cup qualifying matches.
The 2, 340km network will be even further extended by already-established trails, such as the renowned 71km Queen Charlotte Track that meanders through the Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island.
The island, which weighs 680 tonnes, is scheduled to be lifted on to HMS Queen Elizabeth in March.
The Caribbean island is on course to decide, possibly soon, whether or not to ditch the Queen as its head of state.
The winners will see their figurehead crowned queen on the last night, ringing in one of the biggest celebrations of the year on an island that rarely needs an excuse for a party.
The Queen Mother, who died in 2002, is depicted on a series of coins minted last year by Nightingale Island, a one-square-mile spot of land in the South Atlantic where many pirates were thought to have buried their treasures.
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