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Title
Lief, the Viking
Subject
America, Barrier Miner, Broken Hill, Christopher Columbus, Leif Ericson, Leif Eiriksson, Norseman, Perth, ship, WA, The West Australian, Western Australia, Viking
Description
An article on page 6 of the Perth newspaper, The West Australian on August 21, 1908. The article is about Leif (misspelt Lief) Eiriksson and his feat of being the first European to reach (‘discover’) the American continent. It reports that although ‘the practical history of America dates to Columbus’, he was not the first European to reach America. The anonymous author provides an Australian parallel by noting that Australian history may have begun when James Cook reached Botany Bay, but Australia had been discovered by the captain of the Dutch ship Duyfken when it landed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1607. The article is accompanied by a drawing of a Viking warship above the North American continent. Strangely, it is the ‘United States’ is which is labelled despite Canada being the place that Leif reached.
Creator
Anon.
Source
National Library of Australia
Publisher
The West Australian
Date
21 August 1908
Rights
No Copyright
Format
Digital Newspaper Article
Language
English
Document Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Newspaper Article; PDF. The article can be found at http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26206757