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Happy Leif Erickson Day! Did you know Leif Erikson Day is October 9th? It celebrate the generations of immigrants from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark and their contributions to the United States. In honor of that, Seattle's Leif Erikson's League funded a statue of famed Norse explorer Leif Erikson in 1962, who looks out to see at The Port of Seattle's Shilshole bay Marina. The statue was sculpted by August Werner and dedicated at the Marina on June 17, 1962.

On the shores of Shilshole Bay Marina you’ll notice a 16-foot-tall silent sentinel watching the horizon. The statue depicts Leif Erickson, the Viking explorer who crossed the storm-wracked seas of the North Atlantic, landing in North America around 1000 CE. Did you know he was known as “Leif the Lucky?”

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