Thule (IPA: [ˈθuːli], enPR: tho͞oʹlē; Greek Θούλη, Thoulē; also calle Thile, Tile, Tilla, Toolee, or Tylen) is in classical sources a place, usually an island. Ancient European descriptions and maps locate it either in the far north, often northern Great Britain, possibly the Orkneys or Shetland Islands, or Scandinavia, or, in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, in the west and north, often Iceland or Greenland. Another suggested location is Saaremaa in the Baltic Sea.