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Thule was the place located furthest north, which was mentioned in ancient Greek and Roman literature and cartography.

In classical and medieval literature, ultima Thule (Latin “furthermost Thule”) acquired a metaphorical meaning of any distant place located beyond the “borders of the known world”.[2]

By the late middle ages and early modern era, the Greco-Roman Thule was often identified with the real Iceland or Greenland. Sometimes Ultima Thule was a Latin name for Greenland, when Thule was used for Iceland.[3] By the late 19th century, however, Thule was frequently identified with Norway.[4][5]

In 1910, the explorer Knud Rasmussen established a missionary and trading post in north-western Greenland, which he named “Thule” (later Qaanaaq).”