EnvironmentEurope
Doggerland drowns
The land between England and Denmark vanishes beneath the sea
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Doggerland vanished slowly over millennia, but the end may have come suddenly: around 6200 BCE an undersea landslide off Norway — the Storegga slide — sent a tsunami across the shores of the North Sea. It is among the best-documented losses of inhabited land in history, and a reminder that our map of "always" is a snapshot.
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Where the North Sea lies today there was once grassland with rivers and hunting grounds. As the ice melted the sea rose, and in the end Britain became an island. Fishermen still haul up tools and bones from the seabed.
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Part of Terra Saga — the story of Earth on a timeline. terrasaga.org