Cross continents at Sandvík. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge that crosses Iceland is an impressive rift between active continental plates. The ridge is the meeting-point of the North American and

This place, lava-scarred Reykjanes peninsula is located over the world's major plate boundaries, the Mid Atlantic Ridge. Going by the Eurasian and North 

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge has a major impact on Iceland, not only because the ridge divides the country in two, but also because the ridge is 

Iceland is the only place where the ridge is visible on land and it is possible to walk between the two tectonic plates. Miðlína or The Bridge Between Continents is located at Sandvík and there you can walk from Europe to North America in only few seconds but the bridge was actually built as a symbol for the connection between Europe and

Where is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge above sea level? The average depth to the crest (top) of the ridge is 2500 m, but it rises above sea-level in Iceland and is more than 4000 m deep in the Cayman Trough. Mid-ocean ridges are geologically important because they occur along the kind of plate boundary where new ocean floor is created as the plates spread apart.

Why is Iceland a portion of the mid-ocean ridge? Iceland represents the largest portion of the MAR exposed above sea level. Formed from volcanic eruptions on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, about 24 million years ago, it is one of the few places where you can stand on the ridge on dry land.This makes Iceland very special and a popular place for geologists and scientists.

The Bridge between Continents (or Midlina) is a 15 meter (50 ft) footbridge in the Reykjanes Peninsula spanning a gaping rift between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.

Iceland is located mostly south of the Arctic Circle in the North Atlantic Ocean, less than 200 miles across the Denmark Strait from the coast of Greenland. Iceland has a unique geological location on top of the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a divergent plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate.

To the north and south, the ridge lies beneath some 2500m of water, forming a rift that separates the North American plate from the Eurasian plate. The rift spreads apart at a rate of some 2.5 cm/year, forming new oceanic lithosphere in the process. But in Iceland, you can actually walk around in it!

After the volcano hike, we stop by the bridge between continents, where you can walk between the continental plates that divide the peninsula.

Iceland is home to the largest portion of exposed Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the world, and one of the only places where you can stand upon it on dry land.