Thule Islands
| Thule Islands | ||
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| Waters | Borge Bay ( Signy Island ) | |
| archipelago | South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 ′ S , 45 ° 36 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Thule Islands are a group of small islands in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . They are located 400 m southwest of Balin Point in the northwest part of Borge Bay of Signy Island .
The group had been known as Thule Rocks since at least 1916 . After measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee made an adjustment to the name in 1959. It is named after the Norwegian whaling ship Thule , which operated as a factory ship in the waters around the Southern Orkney Islands in two campaigns between 1912 and 1914 .
Web links
- Thule Islands in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thule Islands on geographic.org (English)