The evidence turns previous assertions that the Italian Christopher Columbus was the first foreigner to step foot in the New ...

The North Atlantic route the Vikings used also posed a barrier. "Relatively seen, the cold and the storms of the North Atlantic made this sea a higher barrier than the more favourable conditions ...

The Vikings were just another crowd ... connecting peoples from Baghdad to Scandinavia to southern Europe to the north Atlantic to the mainland of North America. From a social or economic or ...

Photograph by Robert Clark L’Anse aux Meadows on the north of the island of Newfoundland, the only confirmed Viking site in America to date. Photograph by Rolf Hicker/Corbis/Getty Images In ...

Not only did the Vikings travel to Scotland, they also sailed west into the Atlantic Ocean ... so he set sail from Greenland and arrived in north western Canada. He called the new country Vinland ...

the Vikings also explored new lands far to the West, across the vast North Atlantic ocean.' NEIL OLIVER:One stormy day, sometime in the second half of the ninth century, a Viking ship sailing from ...

Whales are gathering in large numbers off New Jersey in a portion of the Atlantic Ocean called the New York Bight, according to several sources.