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L'Anse aux Meadows (lit. ' Meadows Cove ') is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony.
Point Rosee (French: Pointe Rosée [1] [2]), previously known as Stormy Point, [1] [3] [4] is a headland near Codroy [1] at the southwest end of the island of Newfoundland, on the Atlantic coast of Canada. In 2014, Point Rosee was designated a potential Norse archaeological site based on near-infrared satellite images.
A small ivory statue that appears to represent a European has also been found among the ruins of an Inuit community house. [13] Map showing the expansion of the Thule people (900 to 1500) The settlements began to decline in the 14th century. The Western Settlement was abandoned around 1350, and the last bishop at Garðar died in 1377. [13]
Canada accepted the convention on 23 July 1976. [3] There are 22 World Heritage Sites in Canada, with a further 10 on the tentative list. [3] The first two sites in Canada added to the list were L'Anse aux Meadows and Nahanni National Park Reserve, both at the Second Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Washington, D.C., in 1978. [4]
Vinland was the name given to part of North America by the Icelandic Norseman Leif Eriksson, about 1000 AD. It was also spelled Winland, [4] as early as Adam of Bremen's Descriptio insularum Aquilonis ("Description of the Northern Islands", ch. 39, in the 4th part of Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum), written circa 1075.
Tanfield Valley, also referred to as Nanook, is an archaeological site located on Imiligaarjuit (formerly |Cape Tanfield), along the southernmost part of the Meta Incognita Peninsula of Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
Overview of Norstead. Norstead: A Viking Village and Port of Trade is a reconstruction of a Viking Age settlement. Located near L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Norstead won the provincial Attractions Canada award for "Best New Attraction" in 2000, and was the centerpiece of a series of events held that year to commemorate the 1,000th anniversary of the Vikings' arrival.
Skraeling Island is an extensive archeological site which has yielded a wealth of artifacts [3] from Small-Tool cultures dating from 4500 BC (Dorset and Thule).Norse items found at Inuit sites [3] — some 80 objects from a single site including a small driftwood carving of a face with European features — suggests that there was a lively trade between the groups (as well as an exchange of ...