来自希腊语 Thyle,古希腊传说中不列颠以北航行六天后所到达的陆地,受限于当时的地理知 识和有限的古文献资料,具体位置不详,现学者估计为冰岛或北欧一带。引申词义极北之地。
The barbarians showed us where the sun set. For it happened in those places that the night was extremely short, lasting only two or three hours; and the sun sunk under the horizon, after a short interval reappeared at his rising." [Pytheas]The name was given to a trading post in Greenland in 1910, site of a U.S. air base in World War II.
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