Place

L’Anse aux Meadows

Archaeological site at the northern tip of Newfoundland preserving the remains of a Norse base used around the year 1000 and securely active in 1021.

Coordinates51.60, -55.53

Related expeditions

1000–1021

Norse Voyages to Vinland

Around the year 1000, Norse seafarers travelled from Greenland to lands west of the Labrador Sea. The Icelandic sagas associate several voyages with Leif Erikson, Thorfinn Karlsefni, and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, while archaeology securely demonstrates a Norse presence at L’Anse aux Meadows.

Sources and further reading

L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Parks Canada. Official archaeological and historical interpretation of the Norse site, its buildings, activities, seafaring context, and Indigenous landscape.
Evidence for European Presence in the Americas in AD 1021, Nature. Archaeological study of worked wood and chronological evidence used to anchor Norse activity at L’Anse aux Meadows to 1021.

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