http://www.heygo.com 14th February Golden Circle Part I: Thingvellir National Park Thingvellir is the only place in the world where you can stand between two continental plates. Thingvellir National Park lies on top of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a gigantic 16,000-km fissure that stretches between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. Iceland is the only place in the world where the fault line is above sea level. This unique landscape is a result of the blanket of 10,000-year-old lava fields. Several eruptions in the area & shifting tectonic plates. Thingvellir is known as the birthplace of Iceland as a nation, and home to the oldest ongoing parliament in the world. The Icelandic Commonwealth period ran from the year 930 until 1262. The law council, Lögrétta, was the supreme institution of the Alþingi, and the Lögbe
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