Credits

Map and model

Mr Lane, 2026. Map design, terrain preparation and teaching presentation in QGIS. Interactive viewer: Qgis2threejs 2.10.2 and three.js.

Elevation

ArcticDEM v4.1 mosaic, 2 m source resolution; Polar Geospatial Center. The web terrain is resampled for display and uses 1.75× vertical exaggeration.

DEMs provided by the Polar Geospatial Center under NSF-OPP awards 1043681, 1559691, 1542736, 1810976, and 2129685.

Porter et al. (2023), ArcticDEM — Mosaics, Version 4.1, Harvard Dataverse.

Rivers and water bodies

IS 50V Vatnafar hydrography: National Land Survey of Iceland (Landmælingar Íslands); now maintained by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland (Náttúrufræðistofnun). Dataset information.

Learning content

Geography sources: Þingvellir National Park. Historic assembly site: UNESCO and Þingvellir National Park. Text rewritten for KS2; each card links to a source.

Photographs and plate maps

Almannagjá Gorge, Þingvellir National Park, Iceland.jpg — Marine SABRES, CC BY 4.0. Source and licence. Resized and JPEG compressed.

OxaraRiverThingvellirIce5.JPG — TommyBee, Public domain. Source and licence. Resized and JPEG compressed.

Thingvallavatn Lake.jpg — Pi3.124, CC BY-SA 3.0. Source and licence. Resized and JPEG compressed.

Lögberg, Þingvellir National Park, Iceland, 20230502 0857 4087.jpg — Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source and licence. Resized and JPEG compressed.

EurasianPlate.png — Image: Alataristarion. Wikimedia Commons source · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display.

NorthAmericanPlate.png — Image: Alataristarion. Wikimedia Commons source · CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display.