Newfoundland and Labrador
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The Vikings first discovered Newfoundland, Canada when they came to America. The Scandinavian Vikings, in search of fertile land, voyaged far and wide, temporarily settling in Iceland, Greenland, and the Canadian seacoast of Labrador and Newfoundland.
Labrador
Because the vikings didn't settle in America.
Every scholar studying the discovery of America now is convinced that it was the Vikings. The remnants of the huts that they built were discovered and dated to well before Columbus.
Leif Ericson was the first European Viking to set foot in the New World ( America), 500 years before Christopher Columbus. However, the vikings made few voyages to America after Leif and it was forgotten again until Christopher Columbus found it again in 1492.