L'Anse aux Meadows is an archaeological site of a Norse settlement dating to c. 1000 on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Archaeological evidence of a Norse presence was discovered at L'Anse aux Meadows in the 1960s. It is the only confirmed Norse site in or near North America outside of the settlements found in Greenland.
Dating to c. 1000, L'Anse aux Meadows is widely accepted as evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact and thus the first widely-accepted European contact with the Americas outside of Greenland. It is notable as evidence of the Norse colonization of North America and possible connection with Leif Erikson. It was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978.