Thule Island

Thule Island is one of the southermost of the South Sandwich Islands.

Close to Cook Island and Bellingshausen Island, it is thought that Thule and Cook may have been a larger single island in the past.

Volcanic heat keeps the crater on Thule Island free from ice.

The ground rises to 3,525 feet (1,075m).

Argentina, in order to assert its claim over the South Sandwich Islands, established a research base on Thule called Corbeta Uruguay in the late 1970's. The base was occupied by British Forces in the aftermath of the Falklands War in 1982.

Location: 59.5S; 27.4W