- Thule was a far-northern location in classical European literature and cartography
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Thule facts
- Though often considered to be an island in antiquity, modern interpretations of what was meant by Thule often identify it as Norway, an identification supported by modern calculations
- Other interpretations include Orkney, Shetland, and Scandinavia
- In the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Thule was often identified as Iceland or Greenland
- Another suggested location is Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea
- The term ultima Thule in medieval geographies denotes any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world"
- Sometimes it is used as a proper noun (Ultima Thule) as the Latin name for Greenland when Thule is used for Iceland
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