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LUMIERES D'ISLANDE
Nee de la collision entre le rift medio atlantique et une immense quantite de magma emergeant du rift, l'Islande a su bien se cacher des yeux d Homo Sapiens, ne se livrant a la main de l'homme qu au IXe siecle, avec la colonisation par les Vikings venus de Norvege avec leurs esclaves celtes et leur troupeaux.
Sur cette terre austere, des etendues habitables se sont laborieusement amenagees au pied des glaciers qui deversent leur trop plein d eau, quand les eruptions ne secouent pas les nombreux volcans qu ils emprisonnent sous la glace, provoquant des inondations cataclysmiques.
Ce sont ces eruptions qui ont cree ce long littoral de sable noir.
Entre glaciers et volcans, torrents glaciaires, coulees de lave et etendues de sable, le pays offre un spectacle grandiose. Et, de temps a autre, ces paysages noirs du bout du monde sont illumines par des prairies, des icebergs et des aurores extraordinaires.
L homme a appris a vivre avec les immenses phenomenes et les catastrophes naturelles et a egalement compris tres tot qu en Islande, la principale attraction est la nature elle meme, ainsi que la possibilite de faire preuve d une solitude humaine sans compromis.
LIGHTS OF ICELAND
Iceland is suspended in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, closer to the Arctic Circle than to the European continent. It is as if the country is floating on one side of the imaginary line between Europe and the end of the world.
Originating from the collision between the Mid-Atlantic Rift and an immense quantity of magma emerging from the rift itself, Iceland has been able to hide itself well from the eyes of Homo Sapiens, only revealing itself to the hand of humans in the 9th century, with the colonisation by the Vikings arriving from Norway with their Celtic slaves and their cattle.
On this austere land, inhabitable areas have been laboriously developed at the foot of the glaciers that release their overflow of water, when eruptions do not shake the numerous volcanoes hidden under a mass of ice, causing cataclysmic floods.
These eruptions have created the characteristic long black sand coastline, creating incredible contrasts with icebergs, and the ocean's waves.
Between glaciers and volcanoes, glacial torrents, lava flows and endless stretches of sand, the country offers a breathtaking spectacle. And from time to time, these black landscapes at the end of the world are illuminated by meadows, icebergs and extraordinary northern lights.
Man has learned to live with tremendous natural phenomenons and catastrophies and also understood that in Iceland the main attraction is the nature itself, as well as the possibility of an uncompromised human solitude.
