Thule

American  

[thoo-lee, too-lee] / ˈθu li, ˈtu li /

noun

1. the ancient Greek and Latin name for an island or region variously identified as one of the Shetland Islands, Iceland, or Norway: supposed to be the most northerly region of the world.

2. ultima Thule.

3. Also called Qaanaaq.  a settlement in northwestern Greenland: site of a U.S. air base.

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adjective

1. of or relating to an Indigenous culture flourishing from a.d. 500 to 1400, and extending throughout the Arctic from Greenland to Alaska.

Thule British  

/ ˈθjuːlɪ /

noun

1. Also called: ultima Thule.  a region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world: sometimes thought to have been Iceland, Norway, or one of the Shetland Islands

2. an Inuit settlement in NW Greenland: a Danish trading post, founded in 1910, and US air force base

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Example Sentences

Located 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Pituffik Space Base—known as Thule Air Force Base until 2023—is America’s northernmost base and is key for protecting the U.S. from missile attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, has been operated by the US ever since.

From BBC

The crew had already shown their appreciation of the shipyard when they surveyed a small inlet on Thule Island in 1931 and named it Ferguson Bay.

From BBC

That’s what happened to a handful of Thule Inuit women and children in Greenland.

From National Geographic

Bound sums up Shackleton’s management of the miraculous 1916 rescue as “arguably, the greatest story of human survival in recorded history” and the lost Endurance as “the Ultima Thule of shipwrecks.”

From Washington Post