Thule (UK: /ˈθjuːli/ THEW-lee, US: /ˈθuːli/ THOO-lee, /ˈtuːli/ TOO-lee) was, in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography, a semi-mythical place located in the far north, usually an island. Thule may also refer to:
People
- Thule people, ancestors of the Inuit
Places
- Thule, Greenland, former name of the town of Qaanaaq
- Thule Harbor, another name for North Star Bay in Greenland
- Thule Island, in the South Sandwich Islands
- Thule Islands, a group of Antarctic islands
- Mount Thule, Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada; a mountain
- 279 Thule, an asteroid
- Thule, the smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object 486958 Arrokoth, nicknamed Ultima Thule at the time of the New Horizons flyby
Fictional locations
- Thule, a fictional version of Greenland in the Kinderen van Moeder Aarde novels by Dutch writer Thea Beckman
Companies and organizations
- Thule Group, a Sweden-based company which designs and manufactures outdoor and cargo products
- Thule Society, a German occultist group and forerunner of the Nazi Party
- White Order of Thule, an American white supremacist group
Military
- Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, a United States Space Force base on Greenland
- Thule Tracking Station, United States Space Force station on Greenland
- Radio Mast Thule, a longwave guyed transmission tower in Greenland
- HSwMS Thule, a Swedish navy ship name
- HMS Thule, a British navy ship name
Other uses
- Graphium thule (G. thule) a species of butterfly
See also
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- 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
- Thulegate, a political scandal involving nuclear weapons
- Ultima Thule (disambiguation)
- Thyle, a court position
- Taake, a black metal band from Norway formerly known as Thule.
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