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Map of South Sandwich Islands showing location of Thule Island. Thule Island is roughly triangular in shape and 14 square kilometres (5 + 1 ⁄ 2 sq mi) in area with a long, panhandle-like peninsula called Hewison Point, three kilometres (2 mi), extending to the southeast.
A map of the world voyage done by Sir Francis Drake in 1577-1580 shows Thule (Tile/Tule) as what is likely modern Iceland near Greenland. [ 35 ] The British surveyor Charles Vallancey (1731–1812) was one of many antiquarians to argue that Ireland was Thule, as he does in his book An essay on the antiquity of the Irish language . [ 36 ]
The Southern Thule group consists of three islands, the southern-most pair Thule Island and Cook Island, and the smaller Bellingshausen Island to their northeast. [6] They rise from an east-west trending [7] wave-cut platform on top of a broad submerged volcano with a width of 30 kilometres (19 mi), [8] and a length of 63 kilometres (39 mi) at 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) depth.
The fourth highest peak, Mount Michael (990 m or 3,248 ft) on Saunders Island has a persistent lava lake, known to occur at only eight volcanoes in the world. [31] [32] The South Sandwich Islands are uninhabited, though a permanently staffed Argentine research station was located on Thule Island from 1976 to 1982.
Cook Island measures about 6 by 3 km (3.7 by 1.9 mi) wide. It is heavily glaciated and uninhabited. [4] Its highest peak, Mount Harmer, rises to 1,115 m (3,658 ft). [5] Mount Holdgate rises 960 ft (290 m) at the southeast end of the island. [6] Working clockwise from the northwest, the following points are found on the island's coast.
1989 aerial view. Pituffik Space Base (/ b iː d uː ˈ f iː k / bee-doo-FEEK; [2] Greenlandic:; IATA: THU, ICAO: BGTL), formerly and perhaps better known as Thule Air Base (/ ˈ t uː l iː /), is a United States Space Force base located on the northwest coast of Greenland.
The name "Thule Rocks" was used as early as 1916, and appears to refer at least in part to this group. The Thule, one of the first floating factories to flense whales at sea, belonged to the Thule Whaling Company of Oslo. It operated in the South Orkney Islands in 1912–13 and 1913–14 and anchored on the east side of Signy Island during ...
The 60th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 60 degrees south of Earth's equatorial plane.No land lies on the parallel—it crosses nothing but ocean. The closest land is a group of rocks north of Coronation Island (Melson Rocks or Governor Islands) of the South Orkney Islands, which are about 54 km south of the parallel, and Thule Island and Cook Island of the South Sandwich ...