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Thule Common

Thule has 6 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there

2

the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world

Proper Noun
1

The semi-legendary island of classical antiquity considered to represent the northernmost location in the inhabited world (the Ecumene).

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.

4

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

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