Thule (disambiguation)

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

• All pages with titles containing Thule
• All pages with titles beginning with Thule
• 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.