Thule Island

The island Morrell, also known as Thule Iceland, is one of three islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, located in the sub-Antarctic archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands, which form the group of the Southern Thule Islands. From the nearest, east neighboring Cook Island Morrell is separated by about four kilometers wide Douglas Strait. The island is dominated by the caldera of the volcano Mount Larsen, which measures 1.5 by 2 kilometers. The land rises steeply to the caldera.

Before Hewison Point, the southeastern end of the island is the small rock Twitcher skirt, with a height of 55 meters.

The island with an area of ​​about 14 sq km is uninhabited, however, provides for numerous seabirds an important nesting area.

1775, the island from the British navigator James Cook was discovered.

From 1976 to 1982 was at the Ferguson Bay in the east of Morrell Island, the permanently manned Argentine research station Corbeta Uruguay. At the same place was built in the summer station Teniente Esquivel of Argentina Refugio already in January 1955, which had to be given up a year later because of a volcanic eruption of Mount Harmer on the adjacent Cook Island.