Thule Thule ( ; also spelled as ''Thylē'') is the most northerly location mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography. First written of by the Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, France) in about 320 BC, i ...

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 The Thule ( , ) or proto-Inuit were the ancestors of all modern Inuit. They developed in coastal Alaska by 1000 AD and expanded eastward across northern Canada, reaching Greenland by the 13th century. In the process, they replaced people of the ...

, ancestors of the Inuit

Places

* New Thule, former name of the town of

Qaanaaq Qaanaaq (), formerly known as New Thule, is the main town in the northern part of the Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. The town has a population of 646 as of 2020. The population was forcibly relocated from its former, traditiona ...

, Greenland * Thule or Old Thule, a locality in

North Star Bay North Star Bay (), also known as Thule Harbor and Wolstenholme Bay, is at the mouth of Wolstenholme Fjord in north-west Greenland. The Dundas Peninsula, terminating in the mesa-like Mount Dundas, is at the north-eastern end of the bay. Two large ...

, Greenland, site of Thule Trading Station from 1910 *

Thule Island Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient ...

, in the South Sandwich Islands * Thule Islands, a group of Antarctic islands *

Mount Thule Mount Thule is a mountain on Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada. It is located north of Pond Inlet on Baffin Island. It is associated with the Baffin Mountains which in turn form part of the Arctic Cordillera The Arctic Cordillera is a terrestri ...

, Canada *

279 Thule 279 Thule is a large asteroid from the outer asteroid belt. It is classified as a D-type asteroid and is probably composed of organic-rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates. Thule was the first asteroid discovered with a semi-major axi ...

, an asteroid * ''Thule'', the smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object

486958 Arrokoth 486958 Arrokoth (Provisional designation in astronomy, provisional designation ; formerly nicknamed Ultima Thule) is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. Arrokoth became the farthest and most primitive List of minor planet ...

, 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 The Thule Society (; ), originally the ('Study Group for Germanic Antiquity'), was a German occultist and group founded in Munich shortly after World War I, named after a mythical northern country in Greek legend. The society is notable chie ...

, a German occultist group and forerunner of the Nazi Party *

White Order of Thule The White Order of Thule was a loosely organized American society formed in the mid-1990s by federal prisoner Peter Georgacarakos, art school graduate Michael LujanGoodrick-Clarke 2003: 231. and New Age occultist Joseph Kerrick.Rudgley 2007: 22 ...

, an American white supremacist group

Military

Pituffik Space Base Pituffik Space Base ( ; ; ), formerly Thule Air Base (), is a United States Space Force base located on the northwest coast of Greenland in the Kingdom of Denmark under a defense agreement between Denmark and the United States. 150 United Stat ...

, formerly known as Thule Air Base, a United States military base on Greenland * Radio Mast Thule, a communications tower in Greenland * , a Swedish navy ship name * , a British navy ship name

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