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Gift Shops -
L'Anse Aux Meadows
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| Leif Ericson and his fellow adventurers stayed
only a short while and disappeared into the mists of history, remembered
only in Norse sagas. Then in 1960 Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad
discovered the ruins of the settlement. Over the next decade, he and his
wife Anne Stine Ingstad, and archaeologists from Parks Canada excavated
the site and proved conclusively it was Norse, carbon dating artifacts to
the year 1000 A.D. In 1978, it was declared a World Heritage Site by the
United Nations, and it is also a National Historic Site. |
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L'Anse Aux Meadows Heritage Shop
P.O. Box 5542
St. John's, NL, A1C 5W4
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