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There is already an article called Thule Island. Now there is one calledSouthern Thule. Is this the same place, just known by another name? Which is the correct name? I know nothing on this. Are they two different places?Corbeta Uruguay it is claimed, was set up on both islands, so presumably it is the same place, just with two different names.

The earlier name of 'Thule Island' isMorrell Island, after Captain Morrell whose voyages were published in New York in 1832.Morrell,Cook andBellingshausen are so close together, compared with the other islands strung out along the chain, that these three are collectively known asSouthern Thule. Ignorant of the detailed geography of such a remote area, the unwary assumed 'Southern Thule' was an island, instead of a group of three.

This pageCorbeta Uruguay says that Southern Thule is in the South Shetland islands, but there is no mention of it in theSouth Shetland Islands page. Completely wrong.

Corbeta Uruguay isPort Faraday in the lee ofMorrell Island in theSouthern Thule group of theSandwich Islands.

In the articleSouthern Thule it states that the islands are in theSandwich Islands. Something seems to be wrong somewhere, but I don't know enough about the subject to correct the mix up. --Monk Bretton 00:31, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I propose to merge this page withSouthern Thule, which is a more complete article about the same place. Quite right. Would anyone object? No.Jonathunder 14:36, 2005 Apr 15 (UTC)

There are two Thules!Some very old maps refer to Iceland as Thule or Thyle. They also seem to show another land mass (maybe the Faroe Islands) as being much larger than it is today, although the maps are seriously inacurate. The Shetland Islands are South East of Iceland and the Faroe Islands, so there is a connection here.

The Mercator Globehttp://hcl.harvard.edu/mercatorglobes/ shows Iceland labeled "Thyle".

The Giovanni Magini map of Atlantic Islands, circa 1597http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/Places/atlantic_islands.htmshows Iceland labeled "Thule".

James NortonSept. 7 2005

Read the last paragraph at[1] if you understand German. Is there another island with the same name, or was it one of Morrell's hoaxes? 03:01, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Don't suppose anyone has an image of the island to add to the article? Understandably, procuring a free image of such a remote island might be difficult, but even a satellite photo would be a welcome addition. Cheers,Zaldax (talk)13:13, 2 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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