L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park

Roads 430 and 436 from the TransCanada Highway, Deer Lake turn-off, about 400 km (250 mi.) north of Corner Brook, Newfoundland.

L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park, a green plain with some moorland, lies at the northern tip of the Newfoundland Great Northern Peninsula. Here were discovered six houses made of grass sods, probably built by the Vikings around the year 1000. Since 1978 it has been the first of its kind to be included in the UNESCO World List of Protected Cultural Monuments.

Back in 1962 a small Viking settlement dating from around ad 1000 was discovered here. It is the oldest known European settlement in North America and to date is the only authentic trace of Viking settlements in the New World. Probably