Thule

Examples

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• Thule Air Base, Greenland's our best bet.

  Executive Decision (1996)

• And the Thule Inuit peoples populated parts of Greenland at the same time as the Norse colonists, with evidence showing the groups came increasingly in contact over the centuries.

  Academic text (1998)

• This must be the hospital in the American air base in Thule.

  Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)

• 'Fix vector for Thule Air Force Base.'

  Executive Decision (1996)

• You are to divert 020 to Thule Air Force Base.

  Executive Decision (1996)

• In the northern part of the island is the city of Quaanaak (or Thule), with a population of about 560 people. This part of the island is not a welcoming place; it is very cold and has limited food supplies since fish and other animals are scarce.

  Blog text (34)

• We were after whales in Baffin Bay, and we had anchored off what is now known as Thule—the furthest point off the North coast of Greenland a big ship can sail.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The United States established a naval base in Thule, Greenland, during World War II.

• Many military operations are coordinated from Thule Air Force Base in northwestern Greenland.

• Tourists often visit Thule to learn about its significant role during the Cold War.

Synonyms

Q

Qaanaaq

vsThule

9.9

A town in northwest Greenland that had a United States navy base during World War II

has identical meaning but uses a different place name for the same town

Compounds

U

ultima Thule

• Archaic

9.9

A very distant place beyond the known world

Surface Forms

Etymology