Colourful Iceland
Haustlitir á Þingvöllum.
Autumn at the national park of Þingvellir in Iceland: the time of wonderful colours. Thingvellir, being a Unesco World Heritage site, is the oldest national park of Iceland and is very unique in many respects. Thingvellir is for example one of the very few places on earth where it can clearly be seen that the American en Eurasian tectonic plates are being torn apart by 1-2 centimeters every year. Also in historical respect the site is unique because the oldest parliament in the world was established there in 930.
A pity that (still) too little is done to protect the vulnerable park against the damages that the growing number of visitors cause.
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Colourful Iceland
Haustlitir á Þingvöllum.
Autumn at the national park of Þingvellir in Iceland: the time of wonderful colours. Thingvellir, being a Unesco World Heritage site, is the oldest national park of Iceland and is very unique in many respects. Thingvellir is for example one of the very few places on earth where it can clearly be seen that the American en Eurasian tectonic plates are being torn apart by 1-2 centimeters every year. Also in historical respect the site is unique because the oldest parliament in the world was established there in 930.
A pity that (still) too little is done to protect the vulnerable park against the damages that the growing number of visitors cause.
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