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Vinland

Vin·land [ vínnlənd ] part of North America, now northern Newfoundland, first seen by the Norse voyager Bjarni Herjólfsson during a voyage from Iceland to Greenland in about ad 986. The Icelandic explorer Leif Ericson explored the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts several years later.
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