Öxarárfoss, Þingvellir National Park
Þingvellir is one of the highlights of the country for several reasons. From a historical point of view, this is the place where the Viking Parliament was established in 930. It was thus Iceland’s supreme judicial and legislative centre. From a geological point of view, Þingvellir is a rift valley where both the Eurasian and the North American tectonic plates slowly separate from each other (which, itself, is called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge).
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