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Thule
Thule is a name commonly associated with northern Europe and the Arctic, and can mean several things:
- The ancient land of Thule, semi-mythical but often identified with parts of Scandinavia. In the works of Procopius, it refers to Scandinavia.
- The Thule culture, ancestors of the Inuit
- Qaanaaq, a town in northwest Greenland formerly known as Thule
- The Thule Air Base of the US Air Force, located near Qaanaaq
- Thule Island, a small island in the territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- The Thule Society, an early forerunner of the Nazi Party
- Thule, a fictional planet from the Star Wars universe
- Asteroid 279 Thule
- Thule asteroid group
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