Thule Land Bridge

The Thule Land Bridge (also called the Thulean North Atlantic Bridge[1]) was a land bridge, now submerged beneath the Atlantic Ocean, that connected the British Isles to central Greenland.[1] The land bridge appeared during the Late Paleocene and disappeared during the early Eocene. The Thule Land Bridge is theorized to have connected northern Europe to North America by way of the British Isles and Greenland.[1] The Faroe Islands, the Iceland-Faroe Ridge, Iceland, and the shallow portion of the Denmark Strait may have been parts of the Thule Land Bridge.

Image of the Thule Land Bridge in Context with the North Atlantic

Relation to other land bridges

While it existed, the Thule Land Bridge would have connected Doggerland to Greenland.

It is also theorized that the land bridge from Europe to North America was completed with an unnamed crossing at the southern portion of the Davis Strait, connecting Greenland to Baffin Island.

References
  1. Maria Hlynska, Leroy Leggitt, Alexey A. Kotov (January 2015). "Miocene Cyclopid Copepod from a Saline Paleolake in Mojave, California". Retrieved 18 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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