 For several years after AD 1000 they lived in a village on the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula, known today as L'Anse aux Meadows.Remnants and artifacts of the occupation can still be seen at L'Anse aux Meadows, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.The island was inhabited by the Beothuks (known as "skrælingjar" in Greenlandic Norse) and later by Mi'kmaq.