but instead part of it stretched out — akin to a string of cheese hanging between two parting pizza slices — leaving Icelandia's continental crust crossing the divide. 'Until now Iceland has ...

You can sense it. There’s something supernatural at play as we snorkel the Silfra fissure between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates in Iceland’s Thingvellir National Park.

Iceland’s Silfra fissure is one of the only places where you can dive between two continents. In some cases the space is so narrow, you can touch North America and Europe at once. Iceland’s ...