states: [canada]
category: cultural
year: 1978
location: Province of Newfoundland and Labrador
region: Europe and North America
latitude/longitude: 51.4666666700, -55.6166666700
At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement are evidence of the first European presence in North America. The excavated remains of wood-framed peat-turf buildings are similar to those found in Norse Greenland and Iceland.
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