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Made a quick stop earlier at Lighthouse Hill to look at the North Cliffs and the pretty sea thrift. I leave in a couple of days and not sure if I'll have time to get back before Wednesday. Oh and the lighthouse is way off in the distance to the left :)
Glowing red cliffs at Point Addis beach sunset. The tide was too high for Point Roadknight. (Explored)
From near the top of the highest point of the Trælanípa cliffs you can see that the ocean has continuously attacked weak points of the rock at the waterline and created what appears to be some caves. For a perspective of the height of the cliffs, there are people near the cliff edge just left of center in the photo. The village of Miðvágur can be seen at the far left and is the starting point for the hike to Trælanípa. The clouds can seem like an ever present companion while in the Faroes.
Island of Vagur, Faroe Islands
You may not sea it directly but the difference in height in this landscape is about 80 m. This are the cliffs of Normandy seen from above. And yes, the tide is low.
Visitors can be seen walking along the Almannagjá Gorge in Þingvellir National Park in southwest Iceland. The cliff walls towering over them consist of stacks of numerous, successive basalt flows. Each layer in the stack is an individual lava lobe.
The entire Þingvellir region is located in a rift valley created by the drifting apart of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. The tectonic plates are drifting in opposite directions at the rate of 7 mm (0.276 in) annually. Almannagjá lies along the North American plate on the west side of the valley. It measures 7.7 km long and 64 m wide at its maximum. The gorge’s cliffs lie along a fault with a maximum throw of 30-40 m. Geologists believe the Þingvellir faults (fissures) to be the surface expressions of deeply rooted normal faults. Basalt cooled from lava flows that erupted out of near by fissures about 2,000 years ago. On the right side of the photo, the volcanic mountain, Ármannsfell, is visible on the horizon.
This unique geology became the backdrop for some of Iceland's most important political and cultural events. Iceland’s settlement by The Norse began with the arrival of Ingólfur Arnarson in 874. Historians refer to the next 56 years, as ‘The Settlement Period’. Driven away from a newly united Norway under King Harald Fairhair, settlers from many different clans settled all around the island’s shores. Though the new arrivals shared an ancestral home, religion and language, difference sprang up because each clan had its own leaders and customs. Violence broke out from time to time between these clans both over their beliefs and for the limited resources their new island had to offer. In order to address these issues the people decided to hold a general assembly with members from each clan.
A man called Grímur Geitskör was given the tasks of gathering representatives from each clan and finding a suitable meeting location. As Geitskör was searching for a location, a man who owned a sheltered piece of land accessible from all corners of the country was convicted of murder, and his property turned public. This sheltered place was in the rift valley at Þingvellir. People from all over Iceland could reach the assembly place with no more than seventeen days of traveling. In 930 AD, over thirty ruling chiefs met for the first time at Þingvellir to discuss law on the island and to create a Viking commonwealth. This meeting and all the ones that followed took place with the cliffs of Almannagjá as a back drop.
Þingvellir translated literally means "Assembly Plains”. The Parliament, called The Alþing, met at Þingvellir from 930 to 1798 AD. Many important historic and cultural events occurred here while Parliment was in session which makes it one of the most imporant places in Icelandic History. In 1799 the Alþing stopped meeting due to Danish colonialism. The Alþing started meeting again sporadically in 1848 in Reykjavik. It was 1907 before the Alþing started meeting regularly also in Reykjavik. In 1928, just before the 1000 anniversary of the foundation of Alþingi in 1930, the parliament made Þingvellir a National Park. When Iceland declared it independence from Denmark in 1944, the ceremony was held at Þingvellir. Today, hundreds of thousands visit Þingvellir National Park every year and most of those visitors walk the Almannagjá.
References:
icelandroadguide.com/items/hakid/
guidetoiceland.is/connect-with-locals/jorunnsg/ingvellir-...
notendur.hi.is/oi/geology_of_thingvellir.htm
www.thingvellir.is/en/history-nature/history/
icelandmag.is/article/9-essential-things-know-about-thing...
The headland at Cwm Nash, a great place with nesting fulmars, coughs raven and peregrine. Steam appeared to be rising from the cliff top, due to the cloud formation.
The statue of James Cook on Whitby's West Cliff. Sandsend is in the backround with a lively sea in between.
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USC was built in the tradition of place like Saint Tropez, Ibiza or the Hamptons, which started as hideaways for the urban intellectuals and Bohemia in the 1960's, followed by new rich, socialites and tycoons in the 70's and 80's creating a vibrant mix of people and subculture.
I have always thought that sign would make more sense if it was in braille. I mean, if you can see the sign, you should also be able to see the cliff. Right?
Santa Cruz, California.
This telephoto view shows the basalt cliffs that support the Waterville Plateau. The plateau was built over millions of years by lava upwelling layer after layer!