Thule

Alternative forms

 * Thule, Thulé, Thulê, Thulē, Thūlē, Tule
 * Thyle, Thylé
 * Thoule, Thoulê

Etymology 1
From the, , from the , , (variants of ) and the 🇨🇬, from the Classical , , from the , , of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

 * island in antiquity


 * historical Eskimo culture


 * airbase

Proper noun

 * 1) The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).
 * 2) * 1844,, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe II (1859), “Dream-Land”, page 41, first stanza, lines 5–6:
 * I have reached these lands but newly // From an ultimate dim Thule.
 * 1) * 1969, V.E. Watts (translator), Boëthius (author), The , bk III, ch. v, page 89:
 * For distant India tremble may // Beneath your mighty rule, // And Thulé⁵ bow beneath your sway // Far in the Northern sea, // But if to care and want you’re prey, // No king are you, but slave.
 * 1) * ibidem, footnote 5:
 * 5. To the Romans Thulé, variously identified as Iceland or Mainland in the Shetland Isles, marked the extreme northern limit of the known world, just as India here stands for the farthest east.
 * 1)  A nationalist and occultist group in Germany in the early 20th century, which included some of the founding members of the Nazi Party.
 * 2) The historical Eskimo culture extending from Alaska to Greenland between the 6th and 14th centuries.
 * 3) A settlement and airbase in northwestern Greenland established in 1910 by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: Թուլիս
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 图勒
 * Esperanto: Tuleo
 * Estonian: Thule
 * Finnish: Thule
 * French:
 * German: Thule
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: Thule
 * Japanese: トゥーレ
 * Korean: ^슐리
 * Marathi: थूले, थ्यूली
 * Persian: ثولی
 * Portuguese: Tule
 * Russian: Фула

Etymology 2
. Coined in January 2019 by the NASA team investigators of the New Horizons program (see quotations below).

Proper noun

 * 1) The smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.

Coordinate terms

 * the larger lobe of Ultima Thule

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) a legendary northern island, Thule
 * 2)  Iceland