Thule or Tile is in classic sources a place, usually an island, in the far north, often Scandinavia. Ultima Thule in medieval geographies may also denote any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world".|||There is an air base at Thule..
http://www.thule.af.mil/
or there was a place called Thule years ago....
http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/Places/thule鈥?/a>|||In my search i found that there is or WAS a Thule in Greenland and it is now called Qaanaaq...|||Thule is in NW Greenland, above 70 degrees North. The USA keeps an air base there for strategic reasons. As another poster mentioned, it has a Greenlandic name as well; the Greenlanders wanted to get away from Danish names and go back to their own snot-hocking-sound names... :)
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