01 Jul 2022
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Arctic History
How Leif Erikson Found the New World

We now know that Christopher Columbus was not the first person to reach the New World. It certainly wasn’t a ‘new world’ to the people who lived there for millennia or even new to Europeans with evidence of Norse exploration and trade long before Columbus. Leif Erikson, a Norse (Norwegian) explorer, would land on Baffin Island […]