Thule

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “I have reached these lands but newly // From an ultimate dim Thule.”

2. özel isim A nationalist and occultist group in Germany in the early 20th century, which included some of the founding members of the Nazi Party.
3. özel isim The historical Eskimo culture extending from Alaska to Greenland between the 6th and 14th centuries.
4. özel isim A settlement in northwestern Greenland established in 1910 by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen.
5. özel isim An air base built on the site in the 1940s.
6. özel isim A locality in the Murray River council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
7. özel isim The smaller lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.

   “For the purposes of discussion, MU₆₉’s larger and smaller lobes have been informally designated “Ultima” and “Thule,” respectively, by the New Horizons team. Ultima and Thule have best-fit measured diameters of ~19.5 and ~14.2km, respectively, with errors of only a few percent at this time.”