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L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
| Site number: | 4 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 11th century | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1978 | |
| Location: | North America, Canada, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador | |
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| Description: | L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site is located at the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland. In the form of 11th-century Viking settlement remains, the site testifies to the first European presence in North America. The wood-framed peat-turf building remains that were excavated on the site are reminiscent of those found in Norse Greenland and Iceland. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. For 360 degree imaging of this site, click here. | |
| L'Anse aux Meadows (from the French L'Anse-aux-Méduses or "Jellyfish Cove") is a site on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland, located in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, where the remains of a Viking village were discovered in 1960 by the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his archaeologist wife, Anne Stine Ingstad. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. For 360 degree imaging of this site, click here. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/4 | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |