Shanawdithit and the BeothukLegend The Beothuk were the people of Newfoundland, and they are gone. Squeezed off the coast and away from their food by European settlement, hunted, and hollowed out by tuberculosis, their numbers collapsed through the 1700s.... Open it on the map
Signal Hill and the first transatlantic signalLegend On 12 December 1901 Guglielmo Marconi, flying a kite antenna 150 metres up in a gale on this headland over St John’s, said he heard three faint clicks through the static: the letter S in Morse, sent 3,400 kilometres from... Open it on the map
The Vikings of VinlandLegend Five hundred years before Columbus, Norse sailors from Greenland landed in North America and built a settlement of turf houses at what is now L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. It was long only a saga story, until a Norwegian... Open it on the map
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