Viking Navigation

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Looks like the Vikings really got around, at least judging from this “picture”:

The Norse arrival in Canada was the culmination of many decades of western expansion driven by a thirst for land and profit. In the late ninth century CE, the Norse began establishing settlements in Iceland; in the tenth century they settled areas of Greenland. From there, Norse expeditions often sailed up the west coast of Greenland, across the Labrador Current to Baffin Island, and south along the shore of Labrador. The only unequivocal archaeological evidence for Norse settlement in this area is found at L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.

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  Tracking the Norse route to Canada.

Source: Vikings in Canada | Royal Ontario Museum.