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Wide view of the first Viking parliament meeting site in Iceland, showing red-roofed buildings, a winding river, green fields, and distant mountains with snow patches.

$Thingvellir fracture, Mid-Atlantic Ridge$

Thingvellir, on the north shore of Lake Thingvalla, meeting place of the Althingi (parliament), 930–1798.

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