Thule (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R. Warner, A. Bursche Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: R. Warner, A. Bursche Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 02, 2019 09:50 PM
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History
An island mentioned frequently -- and often metaphorically -- in texts of the Roman period, said by Ptolemy, Strabo, Pliny, and others to lie to the north of Britannia. Some scholars associate it with the island known today as Shetland, but the geographic association even in antiquity (when it was more than just a rhetorical term) varied (see further Todd in New Pauly).
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/20624
60.3962008, -1.4088929
- Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: OSM location of Shetland island (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Thule (island) connection Atlanticus Oceanus (unspecified date range)
- Thule (island) connection Germanicum Mare (unspecified date range)
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archipelago, island group, island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 2 C1 Thule? Inss.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Shetland UKG
R. Warner, A. Bursche, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Thule (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/20624> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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