Newfoundland Adventure 2025- L' Anse aux Meadows

When in the extreme north end of the Great Northern Peninsula visit L' Anse aux Meadows and Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve and of course go spotting for icebergs, if you can find any. This was a poor year for icebergs in June although there were numerous reports earlier in the year.

Interestingly Burnt Cape, the most northern point of the Great Northern Peninsula, does occasionally have polar bears that swim over or use ice bridges from Labrador so carry the largest and strongest can of bear spray you can find. Bear spray is sold in corner stores in the Rocky Mountain parks for defence against grizzly bears

I have seen White-crowned Sparrows on Burnt Cape and Grey-cheeked Thrush are plentiful everywhere in this area. I had a Grey-cheeked Thrush sing its ethereal song in my campsite in Pistolet Bay Provincial Park, the place to stay if you are visiting the Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve and L' Anse aux Meadows.

Courtesy of Wikipedia

L'Anse aux Meadows (lit. 'Meadows Cove') is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony.

With carbon dating estimates between 990 and 1050 CE (mean date 1014)^[1]^[2]^[3] and tree-ring dating of 1021,^[4]^[5]^[2] L'Anse aux Meadows is the only undisputed site of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact of Europeans with the Americas outside of Greenland.^[3] It is notable as evidence of the Norse presence in North America and for its possible connection with the accounts of Leif Erikson in the Saga of the Greenlanders and the Saga of Erik the Red,^[6] which were written down in the 13th century.^[3] Archaeological evidence suggests the settlement served as a base camp for Norse exploration of North America, including regions to the south.^[7]

Spanning 8,000 hectares (31 sq mi) of land and sea, the site contains the remains of eight buildings constructed of sod over a wood frame, with over 800 Norse objects unearthed,^[8] including bronze, bone, and stone artifacts, and evidence of iron production.^[9] The site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1968 and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978,^[10] and is managed by Parks Canada.^[11]

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Newfoundland Adventure 2025- L' Anse aux Meadows

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