Viking

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Viking

Coordinates53.10°, -111.78°

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Vikings were a seafaring people originally from Scandinavia, who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe. They voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, Greenland, and Vinland. In their countries of origin, and in some of the countries they raided and settled, this period of activity is popularly known as the Viking Age, and the term "Viking" also commonly includes the inhabitants of the Scandinavian homelands as a whole during the late 8th to the mid-11th centuries. The Vikings had a profound impact on the early medieval history of northern and Eastern Europe, including the political and social development of England and parts of France, and the establishment of Kievan Rus', the ancestor of the later states of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Nearby places in Alberta

• Iron Creek Hutterite Colony
  11.5 mi away
• Kinsella
  12.5 mi away
• Mixburn Hutterite Colony
  17.7 mi away
• Holt Hutterite Colony
  20.1 mi away
• Ranfurly
  21.9 mi away
• Innisfree
  22.1 mi away
• Sedgewick
  22.4 mi away
• Strome
  23.1 mi away
• Holden Hutterite Colony
  24.2 mi away
• Daysland
  25.8 mi away
• Mannville Hutterite Colony
  27.8 mi away
• Lougheed Hutterite Colony
  36.5 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Viking

Wealth in mixed farming at Viking, Alberta

Collier Brothers · 1915

The Viking Formation, Central Alberta

Gerald Francis Stansberry · 1957

Viking deposition in the Suffield Area, Alberta

Paul G. Tizzard · 1974

Survey of Viking

Alberta. Industrial Development Branch · 1964

Spin a silver dollar

Alberta Hannum · 1945

A regional subsurface correlation of some bentonite beds in the Lower Cretaceous Viking Formation of south-central Alberta, Canada

Levi Chukwuemeka Amajor · 1978

Viking in profile

Viking History Book Committee · 1991

Paint the wind

Alberta Hannum · 1958

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Isabella Tiger Moth

Pyrrharctia isabella

Seen 2026-09-15

Variable Darner

Aeshna interrupta

Seen 2026-09-06

Bronze Jumping Spider

Eris militaris

Seen 2026-08-30

Boreal Chorus Frog

Pseudacris maculata

Seen 2026-08-24

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

Seen 2026-08-24

Northern Pocket Gopher

Thomomys talpoides

Seen 2026-08-23

Two-striped Grasshopper

Melanoplus bivittatus

Seen 2026-08-20

Great Blue Heron

Ardea herodias

Seen 2026-08-18

Banded Sexton Beetle

Nicrophorus investigator

Seen 2026-08-18

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

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