L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site

World Heritage

Canada

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At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula on the island of Newfoundland, remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement provide evidence of the first European presence in North America. Excavated remains of timber-framed peat-turf buildings are similar to those found in Greenland and Iceland in northern Europe.

# North America

# Newfoundland

# National Historic Site

# Viking settlement

# European

# Timber-framed peat-turf buildings

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A model depicting the Norse settlement established at L'Anse aux Meadows

The remains of Norse buildings on display. The remains of seven Norse buildings were uncovered durin...

Anne Ingstad at L'Anse aux Meadows, 1963. Anne, along with her husband, led an archeological excavat...

Different sailing routes to Greenland, Helluland (Baffin Island), Markland (Labrador), and Vinland (...

The 1590 Skálholt Map showing Latinized Norse placenames in North America,[11] • Land of the Risi (a...

Recreated Norse buildings at L'Anse aux Meadows

Interior of the recreated Norse sod longhouse, north of the archaeological site

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Information extracted from Wikidata

country	Canada
image	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Authentic%20Viking%20recreation.jpg
located in the administrative territorial entity	Newfoundland and Labrador
executive body	L'Anse aux Meadows
ELSTAT geographical code	lanse-aux-meadows
number of rooms	lccn-n86060824
office held by head of the organization	http://g.co/kg/m/09bqy
Commons category	L'Anse aux Meadows
coordinate location	Point(-55.531222222 51.595266666)
start time	2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
point in time	2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
start time	1968-11-28T00:00:00Z
area	8056
area	7991
topographic isolation	236
World Heritage criteria	World Heritage selection criterion (vi)
Atlas Obscura identifier	lanse-aux-meadows

start time	1978-01-01T00:00:00Z
end time	2017-01-01T00:00:00Z
start time	1978-01-01T00:00:00Z
official name	موقع لانس أو ميدوز الوطني التاريخي
official name	Historischer Nationalpark L'Anse aux Meadows
official name	L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
official name	Sitio histórico nacional de l“™Anse aux Meadows
official name	Lieu historique national de L’Anse aux Meadows
official name	ランス・オ・メドー国定史跡
official name	Nationaal historisch gebied L’Anse aux Meadows
official name	Национальный исторический парк Л’Анс-о-Медоус
official name	拉安斯欧克斯梅多国家历史遗址
volume as quantity	World Heritage selection criterion (vi)