Vinland
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Vinland, Vineland, or Winland was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Eriksson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John Cabot. The name appears in the Vinland Sagas, and describes Newfoundland and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence as far as northeastern New Brunswick. Much of the geographical content of the sagas corresponds to present-day knowledge of transatlantic travel and North America.
Recreated Norse long house, L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The site was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1978.
The beginning of the Saga of Erik the Red (13th-century manuscript)
Church of Hvalsey, one of the best preserved remnants from the Norse settlement in Greenland.
Leif Ericson U.S. commemorative stamp, issued 1968
Newfoundland (island)
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Newfoundland is a large island within the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is situated off the eastern coast of the North American mainland and the geographical region of Labrador.
Plaque commemorating Gilbert's founding of the British Empire
Cabot Tower located in St John's
James Cook's 1775 Chart of Newfoundland