UNESCO Welterbe

UNESCO-Welterbestätten weltweit

L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site

Kategorie
Cultural
Land
Canada
Einschreibungsjahr
1978
Kriterien
(vi)
UNESCO-ID
4

Beschreibung

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.