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L'Anse aux MeadowsArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.html
Nameless Cove and other places - Sep 20, 2008 Ottawa Citizen,...eight days in early June on the rugged west coast of Newfoundland, travelling from Cape St. George in the south to L'Anse aux Meadows in the north. Cruise traces Vikings' historic journey to North America - Sep 20, 2008 Pittsburgh Post Gazette,Among the highlights in Newfoundland was L'Anse aux Meadows. Here, in authentic Viking territory, we first went through desolate fields containing ruins, Kimmirut site suggests early European contact - Sep 11, 2008 Nunatsiaq News,Unlike L'Anse-aux-meadows in Newfoundland where remnants of Viking houses have been found, Kimmirut sites contain a mix of cultures over time, Alabama hiker passes through area - Sep 2, 2008 Campbellton Tribune,He started his Canadian hike at L'Anse aux Meadows, NL on June 26 and went from there to Port-aux-Basques. After taking the ferry to the mainland, Islanders now call city home - Aug 30, 2008 The Barrie Examiner,Bonnie Godfray grew up in Savage Cove on the northern peninsula, home to about 350 people, not far from the historic Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows Cine a descoperit, de fapt, America? - Sep 23, 2008 Hunedoreanul,Urme ale unei aşezări vikinge au fost descoperite în situl arheologic de la L'Anse aux Meadows, în insula Newfoundland, Canada, ceea ce dă dreptate, Archaeologists heading to L'Anse aux Meadows - Jul 18, 2008 Western Star,A team of archaeologists with Parks Canada is going to spend next week exploring the waters off L'Anse aux Meadows. The team doesn't expect to find Viking Archaeologists pleased with accomplishments of visit - Jul 29, 2008 Western Star,CORNER BROOK — While there was no “spectacular� shipwrecks discovered on their inaugural exploration of waters off L’Anse aux Meadows, Follow the Vikings on Newfoundland tour - Aug 2, 2008 Calgary Herald,The Viking settlement is located at L'Anse aux Meadows on the western coast of Newfoundland. It features recreated sod houses and an interpretive centre. Appalachian Trail segment unveiled - Aug 8, 2008 Western Star,He said there will be a full hiking trail system in place from Port aux Basques to the Northern Peninsula at Crow Head, near L’Anse aux Meadows. Newfoundland: adventure in the great outdoors - Aug 7, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,As I approached the tip of the northern peninsula, I stopped at L’Anse Aux Meadows , site of the first European settlement in the New World. Day trips unveil local history - Aug 2, 2008 Times and Transcript,...or the 1000-year-old Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Nfld. (http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/nl/meadows/index_e.asp) or the village portraying the Circumnavigate Newfoundland with Adventure Canada - Aug 7, 2008 Adventure Travel Media Source (press release),The itinerary includes visits to Fogo Island, L’Anse aux meadows, Raleigh and the Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve, Gros Morne National Park, The Codroy Valley Tastes of Newfoundland - Jul 26, 2008 Telegraph-Journal,...exploring all the little coastal routes or heading clear across west to Gros Morne National Park or up north to L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. MORE CRUISE PASSENGERS DISCOVERING ATLANTIC CANADA - Jul 29, 2008 TravelVideo.tv (press release)World Heritage sites: Gros Morne National Park and L’Anse aux Meadows, a Viking site that is the earliest known European settlement in North America. Projects announced for Northern Peninsula - Apr 23, 2008 Western Star,...of RSDF funding as part of the implementation of an $893721 tourism plan, which includes a new dock at L’Anse aux Meadows to accommodate cruise ships. 139 Canadian places to see before you die - Mar 29, 2008 Canada.com,Duck your head stepping inside the recreated timber-and-sod longhouses at the ancient l'Anse aux Meadows Viking settlement. The remains of eight buildings Northern Atlantic Small Ship Cruises For the Adventurous - Apr 7, 2008 TransWorldNews (press release),Ports of Call: St. John's, Newfoundland, Bonavista, L'Anse aux Meadows & Red Bay, Labrador, Battle Harbour. Nain. Hebron, Button Islands, Killiniq, Nunavut, Park your worries here - Apr 1, 2008 ChronicleHerald.ca,..."Ships going into St. Anthony, Newfoundland, for example, purposely go for L’Anse aux Meadows (national historic site). While I don’t think it (strike) will ‘Baseball Ballads’ coming to Linden Tree - Feb 21, 2008 Wakefield Observer,The trip was a transforming adventure, through primal fjords and mountains, to L’Anse Aux Meadows. He learned about the Halifax Disaster on that trip as Following Newfoundland's Viking Trail - Feb 2, 2008 Richmond Times Dispatch,It's the only route to Newfoundland's two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: L'Anse aux Meadows and Gros Morne National Park. Since this was my first road trip Set the hook - Feb 7, 2008 St. John's Telegram,..."L'Anse Aux Meadows is wonderful," one older woman chirped, "but you know, there's really nothing between here and there." Oh, the heartache of that easily Quark Expeditions launches shorter Arctic cruises - Feb 15, 2008 USA TodayStops en route include L’Anse aux Meadows, site of a Viking village that predates the arrival of Columbus in North America by 500 years, and Canada's new Travel guide lists province as a top destination - Feb 11, 2008 Western Star,Jackman said the Fodor's article specifically highlights L'Anse aux Meadows, Gros Morne National Park, the icebergs of Twillingate and the Booked for the holidays - Nov 17, 2007 Indianapolis Star,From the L'anse aux Meadows Viking Trail in Newfoundland to Dempster Highway in the Yukon, they cover every province and territory, basing their choices on Climate Change 2.0 - Nov 17, 2007 The Conservative Voice,...he discovered green meadows (thus, the name of the settlement, L’anse aux Meadows), abundant wildlife, and mild winters hardly troubled by frost. The place names change, the facts remain - Nov 17, 2007 St. John's Telegram,There was tourism money and theatre money, cash for waterfront enhancement and money for the Norstead recreation at L’Anse aux Meadows. Funding to help Norstead Village bring Viking customs to life - Nov 15, 2007 St. John's Telegram,Norstead Village is located on a four-acre site about two kilometres from the UNESCO World Heritage Viking Site at L'Anse aux Meadows. Visiting and Dining in Newfoundland - Sep 23, 2007 Ledger Independent,After arriving at port Channel aux Basques we headed north to L'Anse aux Meadows, this was several hundred miles north of the port. Cruising to the Cape - Oct 5, 2007 Georgian,Captain Fiedler said being able to visit L’anse aux Meadows, the world heritage site in St. Anthony, was of particular importance to the group. Community happenings - Sep 25, 2007 Truro Daily News,Featuring presentation by well-known author and retired Parks Canada archaeologist Birgitta Wallace on Westward Vikings, the Story of L’Anse aux Meadows. Norwegian influence in Boone County impossible to ignore - Oct 10, 2007 Rockford Register Star,But 500 years earlier, Eriksson and his Vikings had established the first European settlement in North America at L’Anse Aux Meadows on the northern tip of Local hiking club will take Americans on walking adventure - Aug 13, 2007 Western Star,...the Maritime Archaic Indian national historic site at Port au Choix before making their way to L’Anse aux Meadows to visit the Viking site there. Will DNA turn Madoc myth into reality - Jul 22, 2007 Toronto Star,Klausner also points out that the stories of Norse voyagers discovering Vinland were thought to be myths until the discovery of L'Anse aux Meadows, What’s wrong with having two universities? - Aug 4, 2007 St. John's Telegram,...among other positive features, two great historical, scientific and heritage sites like Gros Morne and L’Anse aux Meadows. the VOCM and CFCB networks. Even The Rock is in on the act - Jul 31, 2007 Montreal Gazette (subscription),When he landed at L'Anse aux Meadows, NL, around 1000, Leif Ericson named the area Vinland, for the wild grapes he found there. Today, cultivated grapes are Breaching Whales, Crashing Tides, Winding Roads, and Quiet Nights ... - Jul 23, 2007 TravelVideo.tv (press release)The tour winds up with a kayaking expedition hunting for icebergs and a visit to the thousand-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site at L'Anse aux Meadows, Heritage designation sought for Rideau Nov 23, 2006 They include the old town of Quebec City, Alberta’s Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, and the L’Anse aux Meadows Viking settlement in Newfoundland. - Ottawa Citizen (subscription), Two New Members Appointed to the Board of Directors of the ... Nov 15, 2006 Gina Hodge-Noordhof is the owner of the Norseman Restaurant and Gaia Art Gallery in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador. ... - Industry Canada (press release), Town sees tourist allure in film set's Viking vessel Nov 7, 2006 ...backdrop. The community is about 500 kilometres south of L'Anse aux Meadows, where Norse explorers briefly settled around 1000 AD. - CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador, Getting info online for Newfoundland 31 Mar 2006 6353). • Viking adventurers established a short-lived settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows on Newfoundland's northern coast. It's ... Seattle Times, The man who rediscovered America Mar 27, 2006 ...his explorations on a radical theory, Ingstad found the proverbial 'needle in the haystack' - the ancient Viking settlement L'Anse aux Meadows built around AD ... Norway.org, Closing the circle Mar 27, 2006 Basing his explorations on a radical theory, Dr. Ingstad found the ancient Viking settlement L'Anse aux Meadows built around AD 1000. ... Norway.org, Smithy Built at Borg Viking Museum Mar 27, 2006 The smithy is largely based on archaeological excavations from L’anse Aux Meadows in New Foundland and will be built close the reconstruction of the largest ... Norway.org, Millennium Viking exhibit sails west Mar 27, 2006 ...exhibit. In Canada, a small exhibit at L'Anse aux Meadows, where the Vikings probably had a settlement, is also being planned. The ... Norway.org, Haunted Places in Canada Mar 2, 2006 Newfoundland - L’Anse Aux Meadows - Supposedly spanning from the Iceland story of the Vikings, people have calculated how long it would have taken Vikings ... Only Idol, [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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