- Not to be confused with the Thule Islands, the town of Thule, Greenland.
Thule Island, also called
Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the
South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as
Southern Thule. It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of
Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the earth. The alternative name Morrell Island is after
Benjamin Morrell, US explorer and whaling captain. Viewed by
James Cook and his Resolution crew on 31 January 1775 in his attempt to find
Terra Australis.
