National Geographic Kids USA - March 2017

GREG MUMFORD (PARCAK DIGGING)

ewfoundland

GREENLAND

ATLANTIC

OCEAN

ICELAND

BY KRISTIN BAIRD RATTINI

Viki

PATHOFTH

Experts think the Vikin

followed this route fro

Scandinavia (modern-

day Denmark, Sweden,

and Norway) through t

North Atlantic to settle

Newfoundland, Canada.

ART BY SAM KENNEDY

A

wooden ship heaves onto shore after crossing the

Atlantic Ocean to this remote spot. The explorers

aboard hope to establish a settlement here, in what

is now Newfoundland, an island in eastern Canada.

They’ll build homes and repair ships—perhaps preparing for

more voyages farther into this unknown land. So who are these

mysterious travelers? They are Vikings.

No proof has been found of Viking settlements in North

America beyond this spot—called L’Anse aux Meadows. But

modern technology has uncovered clues at a possible new site

that could rewrite Viking history.

26 MARCH 2017

SCANDINAVIAIS THIS WAY.

Archaeologists

uncovera possible

lost settlement

in Canada.