Thule Island

Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as . It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the Earth.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island of the South Sandwich Islands
  • Also known as: “Morrel Island”, “Morrell Island”, and “Southern Thule Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Larsen.

Volcano
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is a mountain, 710 metres high, situated in the east-central portion of Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II who named it for Captain C.A. Larsen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corbeta Uruguay base.

Locality
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was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on Thule Island, , in the South Sandwich Islands. It was vacated and mostly demolished in 1982 following Britain's victory against Argentina in the Falklands War.

Thule Island

Latitude
-59.43733° or 59° 26′ 14″ south
Longitude
-27.3578° or 27° 21′ 28″ west
Open location code
39GJHJ7R+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 25673029
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
3426256
Wiki­data ID
Q1480145
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Satellite Map

Discover Thule Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Thule Island” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Tule”
  • Breton: “Enez Thule”
  • Catalan: “Illa Morrell”
  • Catalan: “illa Thule”
  • Catalan: “Illa Thule”
  • Cebuano: “Thule Island”
  • Chinese: “图勒岛”
  • Chinese: “圖勒島”
  • Dutch: “Thule Island”
  • Dutch: “Zuid-Sandwich eilanden”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Morrell”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Thule”
  • French: “Île Morrell”
  • French: “Ile Thule”
  • French: “île Thule”
  • French: “Île Thule”
  • German: “Morrell Island”
  • German: “Morrell-Insel”
  • German: “Thule Island”
  • Hebrew: “ת’ולה (אי)”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Thule”
  • Italian: “Isola di Thule”
  • Japanese: “テューレ島”
  • Latvian: “Morela sala”
  • Latvian: “Tules sala”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Morrell Island”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thule Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thule Island”
  • Norwegian: “Thule Island”
  • Norwegian: “Thuleøya”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Thila-īeg”
  • Polish: “Thule”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Thule”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Morrell”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Thule”
  • Russian: “остров Туле”
  • Russian: “Туле”
  • Spanish: “Isla Morrell”
  • Spanish: “Isla Thule”
  • Spanish: “Isla Tule”
  • Swedish: “Thule Island”
  • Ukrainian: “Туле (Південні Сандвічеві острови)”
  • Ukrainian: “Туле”

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