Viewpoint · Þingvellir, Iceland

Almannagjá

A rift where the North American and Eurasian plates pull apart about 2 cm a year, and the site of the Alþingi — a parliament that met here from 930.

Almannagjá is in Þingvellir, and this is Þingvellir — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 1,270 km across and 450 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. Relief from GMTED2010 (USGS) and ETOPO1 (NOAA), public domain. The full map →

Give it 2 hours · Open year-round · 64.256°N, -21.129°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Ring Road 1 circles the island in 1,330 km and most visitors drive it. All of Iceland →

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The record

What this atlas holds about Almannagjá, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Viewpoint
Give it: 2 hours
Season: Open year-round
Where: 64.256°N, -21.129°E
In: Þingvellir