Avayalik is an island at the far north of the
Labrador Peninsula
The Labrador Peninsula, or Quebec-Labrador Peninsula, is a large peninsula in eastern Canada. It is bounded by the Hudson Bay to the west, the Hudson Strait to the north, the Labrador Sea to the east, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the southe ...
in the Canadian province of
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
. It is a possible site of early Norse colonization of North America.
See also
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L'Anse aux Meadows
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 Ca ...
References
Richard H. Jordan, "Preliminary Results from Archaeological Investigations on Avayalik Island, Extreme Northern Labrador"in ''Arctic'' Vol. 33, No. 3 (Sep., 1980), pp. 607–627.
Viking Age in Canada
Islands of Newfoundland and Labrador
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