First known settlement of Europeans in the New World

According to Official Guinness Records,

Scholars by and large accept now that the Norse remains at L’Anse aux Meadows at the northern tip of Newfoundland comprise the earliest known European settlement in the New World circa 1000 AD. The settlement was abandoned circa 1015 AD, barely two decades after the Norse set foot there.

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