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Newfoundland Tourism Region : Western
L'Anse aux Meadows: (Note: Usually written without hyphens) Located at the most north- easterly tip of the Great Northern Peninsula, if you have been to Newfoundland, "L'Anse aux Meadows" has to be a familiar name.
The name of the cove is supposedly to come from French migratory fishermen who named the site L'Anse aux Meduses' - that's right, Jellyfish Cove!
It is supposed that an English corruption altered it to its current name, L'Anse aux Meadows (translated as the "Bay with the Grasslands") which now also applies to the community on the stretch of water.
As mentioned earlier on, in the 1960s an archaeological team, from Norway, Helge and Anne Ingstad determined that the site was predated by Maritime Archaic Indians, Dorset Eskimo, and Vikings or Norsemen, as well as proto-Beothuk, almost unheard of.
In 1968 it was declared a National Historic Park and in 1978 a World Heritage Park, the first authenticated Norse site in North America!
Used with permission from "Uncovering the Origin of 1001 Unique Place Names in Newfoundland and Labrador" 2021 Jennifer Leigh Hill
Address of this page: http://nl.ruralroutes.com/LAnseauxMeadows