Ground Zero of the Mid Atlantic Ridge

Ground Zero of the Mid Atlantic Ridge
Originally uploaded by MichaelDuquetteFowler

This view was captured near the site where the original Viking settlers held their annual parliament. It also happens to be geologically important because it is the rift between two separate continental plates that are drifting apart by approximately 1.5cm per year.

Here's a little more on the annual Parliment:
After only 50 years of Viking settlement, a national assembly, the Althing, was established in Tingvellir. With no monarch or ruler this was a unique governing structure of the Middle Ages and the oldest parliament in Europe. Meeting only two weeks every summer, the assembly, comprised of both men and women from all around Iceland, passed new laws and settled disputes. The Althing held no power to implement punishment or change, this was left up to the individual, and individual’s obligation to society is a main theme of the Sagas.