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Newfoundland is a large island off the north-east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. (The province was called "Newfoundland" until 2001.)
Newfoundland is separated from the Labrador Peninsula by the Strait of Belle Isle and from Cape Breton Island by Cabot Strait. It is 111 390 km2 in area, making it the world's 15th largest island. The provincial capital, St. John's, is found on the southeastern tip of the island. Cape Spear, just south of the capital, is the easternmost point of Canada and North America.
The word 'Newfoundland' is pronounced by Canadians with the second syllable slurred and the accent on the last, (as 'New-f'nd-LAND'), so as to imperfectly rhyme with the word 'understand'. Newfoundland has a dialect of English known as Newfoundland English.
The popular 1993 novel by Annie Proulx, The Shipping NewsThe Shipping News is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (BooksEnthsiast.com) by E. Annie Proulx which was published in 1993, and a film of the same name, released in 2001, set on the Canadian island of Newfoundland. The film was directed by Lasse Hallstrom and s, was mostly set in northernmost Newfoundland.
"Newfoundland" (in the original, Terra Nova) was named by the Portuguese João Vaz Corte-RealJoao Vaz Corte-Real was a Portuguese explorer in the 15th century. Some people suggest he visited Newfoundland in or before 1474. Corte-Real, Joao. in 1472Events February 20 The Orkneys and Shetlands are annexed to the crown of Scotland Discovery of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by Joao Vaz Corte-Real. Births Fra Bartolommeo, Florentine artist. Deaths April 25 Leone Battista Alberti, artist ( 1404) Nezahualc, making it the oldest European name in North America.
The only authenticated VikingViking refers in a loose sense to the North Germanic (ethnically Scandinavian) population of Northern Europe in the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th centuries, which during this time colonized, raided and traded the lengths of the coasts, rivers and islands of Eur settlement in North America was discovered on this island by NorwegianThe Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic country west of Sweden on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It has a very elongated form and has an extensive coastline along the North Atlantic Ocean, where Norway's famous fjords are found. In addition to Sweden, it borders R explorer Dr. Helge IngstadHelge Marcus Ingstad ( December 30, 1899 March 29, 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. After mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine, an archaeologist, in 1961 found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows on Newfoundland and his archaeologist wife, Anne Stine Ingstad , at L'Anse aux Meadows in 1960. The site of a multi-year archaeological dig, the settlement dating to more than 500 years before Christopher Columbus contains the earliest European structures in North America. Named a World Heritage site by UNESCO, it is believed to be the legendary Vinland settlement of explorer Leif Ericson.
Newfoundland was explored by Didrik Pining in 1473 and later by Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot), Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524, whose expedition was financed by the citizens of Lyon, under the auspices of King François I of France.
After the Vikings, the first permanent European settlers in Newfoundland were Irish fishermen, who named the island Talamh an Éisc, meaning "island of fish" in Irish Gaelic. This was to foreshadow the centuries of importance of Newfoundland's offshore fishing waters.
On July 5, 1610, John Guy set sail from Bristol, England with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.
French and Basque colonists also arrived to settle on the west coast of Newfoundland. The French called it Terre Neuve.The name Newfoundland is one of the oldest European place names in Canada in continuous geographical and cartographical use, dating from a 1502 letter.
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