Doggerland: lost land bridge between Britain and Europe destroyed by tsunami. Doggerland once connected Britain to Europe It was a landscape of rivers, wetlands, and open plains with mammoths and reindeer Rising seas slowly shrank Doggerland over millennia
Doggerland connected Britain to Europe—rivers, wetlands, open plains, mammoths, reindeer. Norway's Storegga Slide triggered an ~80-ft tsunami. 840 cubic miles of seabed collapsed. 2023 research found an even older slide ~12,000 years prior. Human remains vanish after the wave 🐘🌊
Key Facts
- Doggerland once connected Britain to Europe
- It was a landscape of rivers, wetlands, and open plains with mammoths and reindeer
- Rising seas slowly shrank Doggerland over millennia
- Around 6200 BCE, a massive submarine landslide (Storegga Slide) occurred off Norway
- 720 cubic miles of seabed collapsed, triggering a tsunami
- Wave reached 46 feet high in places, traveling 50 miles inland in Scotland
- Doggerland sat less than 16 feet above sea level with nowhere to run
- Radiocarbon dating shows human remains and Mesolithic tools vanished after the tsunami
- 2023 study revealed older NGA slide predating Storegga by 12,000 years
- Folklore of sunken kingdoms in Wales and Brittany may echo this loss
Related site: Doggerland — view location, images, and history on the Ancient Nerds map.
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