Thule was, in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography, a semi-mythical place located in the far north, usually an island.

Thule may also refer to:

People

  • Thule people, ancestors of the Inuit

Places

  • New Thule, former name of the town of Qaanaaq, Greenland
  • Thule or Old Thule, a locality in North Star Bay, Greenland, site of Thule Trading Station from 1910
  • Thule Island, in the South Sandwich Islands
  • Thule Islands, a group of Antarctic islands
  • Mount Thule, Canada
  • 279 Thule, an asteroid
  • Thule, the smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object 486958 Arrokoth, nicknamed Ultima Thule at the time of the New Horizons flyby

Fictional locations

  • Thule, a fictional version of Greenland in the Kinderen van Moeder Aarde novels by Dutch writer Thea Beckman

Companies and organizations

  • Thule Group, a Sweden-based company which designs and manufactures outdoor and cargo products
  • Thule Society, a German occultist group and forerunner of the Nazi Party
  • White Order of Thule, an American white supremacist group

Military

  • Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, a United States military base on Greenland
  • Radio Mast Thule, a communications tower in Greenland
  • , a Swedish navy ship name
  • , a British navy ship name

Other uses

  • Graphium thule, a species of butterfly

See also

  • 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash
  • Thulegate, a political scandal involving nuclear weapons
  • Ultima Thule (disambiguation)
  • Thyle, a court position
  • Taake, a black metal band from Norway formerly known as Thule.