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 geographers to lie at the extreme end of the Earth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Mount Larsen
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mount Larsen 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.
Corbeta Uruguay base
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Corbeta Uruguay base was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on Thule Island, Southern Thule, 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
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-59.43733° or 59° 26′ 14″ southLongitude
-27.3578° or 27° 21′ 28″ westOpen location code
39GJHJ7R+3VOpenStreetMap ID
way 25673029OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
Discover Thule Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thule Island”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.