What if Doggerland survived?

If Doggerland Had Survived Climate Change Northwestern Europe would be transformed from this: To this: The modern configuration of our major cities would vanish. The sites of port cities such as Liverpool, Rotterdam and Bremerhaven would suddenly find themselves many miles inland.

What was Doggerland and why did it disappear?

It was not until 700 years after the Storegga landslides — around 5500 BC — that the sea level rose so much that the North Sea engulfed the rest of the Dogger Bank. At that point, the island was completely submerged, and all traces of it vanished into the waves of the rough North Sea.

Can Doggerland recreate?

Doggerland is below one of the most important sea routes in the world. It could not be raised again without causing huge disruption to sea shipping.

How was Doggerland flooded?

Doggerland (also called Dogger Littoral) was an area of land, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Great Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 6500–6200 BCE.

What caused Doggerland tsunami?

About 8150 years ago, a submarine landslide occurred off the coast of Norway, dubbed the Storegga Slide. This created a tsunami in the North Sea that hit the surrounding coastlines – in many areas, the wave was many metres deep.

Why is Doggerland important?

The ancient country, known as Doggerland, which could once have had great plains with rich soils, formed an important land bridge between Britain and northern Europe. It was long believed to have been hit by catastrophic flooding.

Who discovered Doggerland?

The existence of Doggerland was first suggested in a late 19th-century book “A Story of the Stone Age” by H.G. Wells, set in a prehistoric region where one might have walked dryshod from Europe to Britain. The landscape was a diverse mix of gentle hills, marshes, wooded valleys, and swamps.

What animals lived in Doggerland?

Doggerland in context Temperate grassland replaced the frozen tundra and big game animals such as mammoth, aurochs and red deer attracted hunters to the region. As global climate continued to warm, sea levels rose and Doggerland became a land of rivers and inlets, archipelagos, lagoons, wetlands and marshes.

Did humans live on Doggerland?

Doggerland went silent, its population being fish and kemp now instead of deer and humans. The area remained forgotten for almost 80 centuries until archaeologists started figuring out its past.

What did the UK look like in the Ice Age?

During this period Britain would have seen the likes of woolly mammoths, giant deer and wolves roaming its icy planes. Large glacial lakes covered Manchester, Doncaster, Newcastle and Peterborough and much of the country was uninhabitable for humans.

How did we learn Doggerland?

Evidence of Doggerlanders’ nomadic presence can be found embedded in the seafloor, where modern fishermen often find ancient bones and tools that date to about 9,000 years ago. These artifacts brought Doggerland’s submerged history to the attention of British and Dutch archaeologists and paleontologists.