Doggerbank - Dogger Island

Here was once a gigantic island: Dogger Island. Between 110,000 and 12,000 years ago, the Earth experienced a glacial period (or a series of ice ages). Because there was a lot of land ice, the sea level was much lower and Great Britain was connected to Europe. That strip of land was called Doggerland . When the ice slowly began to melt from 12,000 years ago to 8,200 years ago, that strip of land became an island, Dogger Island with smallers islands around it.

It has been theorized that the island was completely submerged by a tsunami 8,150 years ago, when a giant submarine landslide occurred off the coast of Norway. This disaster is known as the Storegga Slide. The tsunami probably flooded the island, but it would not necessarily have been completely washed away.

What is certain is that 7000 years ago the island was completely submerged and it became a sandbank as we still know the Doggerbank today.

Pascal Brackman