Southern Thule
Southern Thule is a group of the three southernmost islands in the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean: Bellingshausen, Cook, and Thule.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island group
- Also known as: “Grupo Tule del Sur” and “Southern Thule Group”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cook Island and Mount Harmer.
Cook Island
Island
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Cook Island is the central and largest island of the Southern Thule island group, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775.
Mount Harmer
Peak
Mount Harmer is an ice-covered peak, 1,115 metres high, in the north-central portion of Cook Island, in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II, who named it for Sir Sidney F.
Mount Holdgate
Peak
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Mount Holdgate is a prominent mountain, 960 metres high, with steep icefalls and rock buttresses which provides a clear landmark at the southeast end of Cook Island in the South Sandwich Islands. Mount Holdgate is situated 3 km southeast of Southern Thule.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corbeta Uruguay base.
Corbeta Uruguay base
Locality
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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. Corbeta Uruguay base is situated 7 km southwest of Southern Thule.
Southern Thule
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Satellite Map
Discover Southern Thule from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Southern Thule” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Illes Thule del Sud”
- Cebuano: “Southern Thule”
- Chinese: “南圖勒群島”
- Czech: “Jižní Thule”
- Czech: “Southern Thule”
- Dutch: “Zuidelijke Thule-eilanden”
- German: “Süd-Thule”
- German: “Südliche Thuleinseln”
- Hebrew: “איי ת’ולה הדרומיים”
- Italian: “Isole Thule meridionali”
- Italian: “Isole Thule Meridionali”
- Japanese: “南テューレ”
- Japanese: “南トゥーレ”
- Latvian: “Dienvidu Tules salas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Southern Thule”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Southern Thule”
- Norwegian: “Southern Thule”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþern Thila”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sūþerne Thila”
- Portuguese: “Thule do Sul”
- Russian: “Саутерн-Туле”
- Slovak: “Južné Thule”
- Spanish: “Islas Southern Thule”
- Spanish: “Islas Tule del Sur”
- Spanish: “Tule del Sur”
- Swedish: “Southern Thule”
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