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Þingvellir is now a national park in the municipality of Bláskógabyggð in southwestern Iceland, about 40 km (25 miles) northeast of Iceland's capital, Reykjavík. Þingvellir is a site of historical, cultural, and geological significance, and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Iceland.
Silfra fissure The Mid-Atlantic Ridge passing through Þingvellir Rocks and boulders that have piled up in the fissure due to earthquakes.. Silfra (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈsɪl(v)ra]) is a rift formed in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – the divergent tectonic boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates – and is located in the Þingvallavatn Lake in the Þingvellir National Park in ...
Landscape mode (for landscape photos with the background in focus) Exif version: 2.3: Date and time of digitizing: 13:02, 23 April 2016: Meaning of each component: Y; Cb; Cr; does not exist; Image compression mode: 2: APEX brightness: 6.853125: Exposure bias: 0: Maximum land aperture: 3.6171875 APEX (f/3.5) Metering mode: Pattern: Light source ...
Photos show Icelandic volcano erupting for 10th time in 3 years Lava spurts and flows after the eruption of a volcano in the Reykjanes Peninsula near Grindavik, Iceland, in this handout picture ...
Shock images show roads split apart near Grindavik in Iceland as the country braced for a volcanic eruption following a series of earthquakes and evidence of magma spreading underground.. The ...
With a surface of 84 km 2 it is the largest natural lake in Iceland. Its greatest depth is 114 m. Its greatest depth is 114 m. At the northern shore of the lake, at Þingvellir (after which the lake is named), the Alþingi , the national parliament, was founded in the year 930, and held its sessions there until 1799 and still as of today the ...
Hengill (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheiɲcɪtl̥] ⓘ) is a volcanic table mountain situated in the south-west of Iceland, to the south of Þingvellir.. The volcano is still active, as evidenced by its numerous hot springs and fumaroles, but the last eruption occurred approximately 2,000 years ago, before the settlement of Iceland.
Featured pictures of Iceland (15 F) I. Icelandic film posters (81 F) Media in category "Images of Iceland" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. M.