Bridge across the Continents of Europe and America in Iceland - Sarada's travelogue
Our next stop was the bridge between the 2 continental plates - Eurasian and north American tectonic plates. So if you cross the bridge you are geographically in America but without Visa. It was -2° freezing and quite windy though there is a path. The path was covered with sleet and was quite slippery. The wind was so strong that we were getting pushed. A glove was dropped and was blown so far away in a jiffy. Probably in a better weather conditions we would have enjoyed the whole thing but even in the bad weather was happy to see the fissure between the two plates. Here is the info about it 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. ... These major tectonic plates drift apart by the Earth's forces, few centimeters each year