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Ultima Thule / Thule (paid)

Dave Wilton

• 4 min read
Colored 16th-century map depicting various islands, real and fictional, in the North Atlantic
Detail of Olaus Magnus’s 1539 Carta marina map, showing Thule (Tile) between the Hebrides, the Orkney, and the Faeroe islands, in a place where no actual island exists; Iceland is depicted on the map outside of this detailed section