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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.
The first National Historic Sites to be designated in the province were Fort Amherst, Fort Townshend and Signal Hill in 1951. [5] The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, a National Historic Site commemorating Dominion of Newfoundland forces killed during World War I, is located in France.
The location of L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. Evidence of the Norse west of Greenland came in the 1960s when archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad and author Helge Ingstad excavated a Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. They found a bronze, ring-headed pin like those the Norse used to fasten their cloaks inside the cooking pit of ...
It has been suggested that this site, known as L'Anse aux Meadows (carbon dating estimates 990–1050 CE [40] [41] [42] and tree-ring analysis dating to the year 1021 [43]) could be Leifsbudir. The Ingstads demonstrated that Norsemen had reached North America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus .
L'Anse aux Meadows, which was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1968 and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978, is located 40 km from St. Anthony. [3] St. Anthony is the largest population centre on the Great Northern Peninsula.
Parks Canada - L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site of Canada Archived 16 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine; Vikings: The north Atlantic saga; Searching for archeological evidence of Vikings in Labrador and Newfoundland Archived 2003-12-09 at the Wayback Machine - from The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
This article is a list of historic places in western Newfoundland. These properties are entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places , whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal. The list contains entries from communities in census divisions 4 , 5 , and 9 , encompassing the western portions of the island of Newfoundland .
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 in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.