Who discovered Newfoundland and when ?
Aboriginal people first discovered Newfoundland thousands of years ago, but in their present day oral tradition there is no individual associated with their discovery of Newfoundland. The first known European individual associated with the discovery of Newfoundland is the Viking Leif Eiriksson who landed at L’Anse aux Meadows, near St. Anthony on the northern tip of Newfoundland, in the summer of 1000 or 1001 AD. We know this because his discovery is written down in trustworthy sagas that are preserved in European museums, and Viking ruins were found in 1960 at L’Anse aux Meadows where the sagas intimated they would be found.
