Panchronia

The sea swallows Doggerland

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c. 6200 BC · North Sea · Europe · Nature

Britain becomes an island

The sea swallows Doggerland
Max Naylor · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

After the Ice Age a lived-in plain of rivers and marshes, Doggerland, lay where the North Sea is now. Melting ice raised the sea, and around 6200 BC a tsunami from the Storegga Slide off Norway apparently drowned what was left. Britain was cut off from the mainland for good.