In Search Of A Land That May Not Exist

[Guest SouthernCelt]

On a 'faintly foolish' quest for a mythic site, a writer visits all the coldest places in Europe.

The ancient Arctic land called Thule may not actually exist, but that hasn't stopped generations from trying to find it.

For centuries, daredevil explorers searched for Thule in frozen locales from Greenland to the far northern stretches of Norway. Well-heeled Victorians endured endless steamship voyages to poke around Iceland. Even the Nazis joined the hunt, with one of their most feverish partisans claiming to find the fatherland's heritage in Thule's supposed Aryan past.