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On Monday October 4th 2010 Queen Elizabeth was formally handed over to Cunard. Queen Elizabeth sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton on Tuesday October 12th 2010, following a naming ceremony by the monarch on Monday 11th October 2010. Her maiden voyage will include calls at the Spanish port of Vigo before heading for Lisbon, Cadiz, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, La Palma and Madeira. Afterwards the ship will make several European cruises until she departs on her first World Cruise leaving Southampton on January 5th 2011, stopping at New York, Fort Lauderdale, Aruba and Limon before transiting the Panama Canal. She will then call at Acapulco, Cabo San Lucas and Los Angeles before crossing the Pacific Ocean to Lahaina, Honolulu, Apia, Pago Pago, Fiji, Bay of Islands, Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Bali, Hong Kong, Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh City, Ko Samui, Langkawi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, before crossing the Indian Ocean westbound for Kochi, Mumbai and Muscat. Sailing westbound again across the Arabian Sea before passing through the Strait of Hormuz to call at Dubai in the Persian Gulf, where the Queen Elizabeth will dock close to her predeccesor Queen Elizabeth 2 for the first time. After calling at Salalah and Aqaba the ship will transit the Suez Canal. Westbound Mediterranean calls will be at Athens and Rome, before passing through the Strait of Gibraltar to make a final call at Lisbon on the Atlantic coast of Portugal before returning to Southampton. The voyage is expected to take 103 days. She will then make many European cruises before September 2011 when she is expected to make her maiden Round-the-British-Isles cruise departing Southampton on the 2nd of September 2011 making her way to Edinburgh, Invergordon for Inverness, Greenock for Glasgow, Liverpool, Dublin, Cork and St Peter Port in Guernsey before returning to Southampton. Then she will make various other European cruises until departing for a Caribbean cruise in November and December 2011. She will make a European debut January 2012 and it is not known whether she will take part in a world voyage for 2012 as of yet.
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