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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...
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    proved the pre-Columbian Norse exploration of mainland North America. L'Anse aux Meadows has been hypothesized to be the camp Straumfjörð mentioned in the...
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    remains of a Norse settlement found in Newfoundland, Canada, called L'Anse aux Meadows, which was occupied approximately 1,000 years ago. Leif's place of...
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    settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland. This is known now as L'Anse aux Meadows where the remains of buildings were found in 1960 dating to approximately...
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    Route 436, also known as L'Anse aux Meadows Road, is a 29.1-kilometre-long (18.1 mi) north-south highway on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland...
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    explorer Helge Ingstad, discovered the remains of a Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1960. Anne...
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    supported by the discovery and excavation of a Viking Age settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada. Research done in the early 1960s by Norwegian...
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    St. Barbe-L'Anse aux Meadows is a provincial electoral district in Newfoundland and Labrador, which is represented by one member in the Newfoundland and...
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    archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada. They were thus the first...
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    with 2,258 in 2016, 2,418 in 2011, 2,476 in 2006 and 2,730 in 2001. L'Anse aux Meadows, which was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1968 and...
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    has been recovered in North America beyond Greenland is located on L'Anse aux Meadows. According to the Saga of Erik the Red the location is significantly...
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    encampment that was occupied sporadically for perhaps 20 years at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of Newfoundland. No further European exploration...
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    modern Greenlandic qallunaaq ("Dane"), formerly spelled ĸavdlunâĸ. L'Anse aux Meadows Greenland Newfoundland and Labrador Skraeling Island Thule people...
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    first confirmed visit was by the Norse who built a temporary base at L'Anse aux Meadows, a Norse settlement near the northernmost tip of Newfoundland (Cape...
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  • Head-Smashed-In Old Québec Joggins Kluane Tatshenshini-Alsek Grand-Pré L'Anse aux Meadows Miguasha Mistaken Point Nahanni Lunenburg Pimachiowin Aki Red Bay...
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  • L'Anse may refer to: In Canada L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Quebec In the United States L'Anse, Michigan, a village in the Upper...
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    where the only known New World Norse settlement has been found at L’Anse aux Meadows, and that it eventually reached the Goddard site through native trade...
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    colony is unknown, though it may have been the Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. The relatively few women among so many men caused internal...
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    Great Northern Peninsula at L'Anse aux Meadows. Remnants and artifacts of the occupation is present at L'Anse aux Meadows, now a UNESCO World Heritage...
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    century led to the Norse colonization of Greenland and a base camp L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, which preceded Columbus's arrival in the Americas...
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    name to, and called it Helluland (stone-land). "Is L'Anse aux Meadows Vinland?". L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada. Parks Canada. 12...
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    small settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows at the northernmost tip of Newfoundland (carbon dating estimate 990 – 1050 CE). L'Anse aux Meadows, the only confirmed...
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    a Canadian National Historic Landmark building, in Saskatchewan. L'Anse aux Meadows, the site of the pioneering 10th–11th century CE Norse settlement...
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    light in 1957 (three years before the discovery of the Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland in 1960), bound in a slim volume with a short medieval...
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    Butternut wood has been found at the pre-Columbian Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows at the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, an island where butternut...
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    archaeological investigations by Anne Stine and Helge Ingstad in the 1960s at L'Anse aux Meadows, which is located at 51°35′47″N 55°32′00″W / 51.59639°N 55.53333°W...
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  • Eastern and Western Settlements, which were abandoned around 1350. L'Anse aux Meadows, an archaeological site on the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, and...
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    people arrive in Nunavut. c. 1000: Leif (the Lucky) Ericson reaches L'Anse aux Meadows, in Newfoundland. c. 1000: The land that would become Canada supports...
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    settlement on the northern peninsula of present-day Newfoundland, near L'Anse aux Meadows. Conflict with indigenous peoples and lack of support from Greenland...
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    Bjarni's journey. The result is thought to be the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. This is the first known attempt at settlement by...
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