Sea level rise was a key factor in Vikings leaving Greenland

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 Scientists recently found that ice sheet growth and sea level rise led to massive coastal flooding that inundated Norse farms and ultimately drove the Vikings out of Greenland in the 15th century. 

The Vikings first established a foothold in southern Greenland around A.D. 985 with the arrival of "Erik the Red," an explorer who sailed to Greenland after being exiled from Iceland. Other Viking settlers soon followed, but around the 15th century, signs of Norse habitation in the region vanished from the archaeological record. New findings show that rising seas played a key role, by submerging miles of coastline, according to data presented at the annual conference of the American Geophysical Union.

The scientists tested their hypothesis by modeling estimated ice growth in southwestern Greenland. It was found that from about 1000 onwards, rising seas around Greenland would have flooded Viking settlements by as much as 16 feet (5 meters), affecting about 54 square miles (140 square kilometers) of coastal land.

"A combination of climate and environmental change, the shifting resource landscape, the flux of supply and demand of exclusive products for the foreign market, and interactions with Inuit in the North all could have contributed to this out-migration."

Source - https://www.livescience.com/agu-floods-drove-vikings-from-greenland

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There must have been at least a few people who stayed since it's still inhabitable to this day. Unless Denmark sent their own settlers after the first explorers left.

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A win for the gay community