Key Information
Doggerland
| Type | Submerged Land |
| Area | About 100,000 square miles |
| Time of Submerging | Possibly between 8000 and 5000 BCE |
Learning Point
- Doggerland was a huge, fertile land bridge that once connected Britain to mainland Europe. Events around the time of what scientists call the Ice Age ended, rising seas and the Storegga Slide tsunami flooded the low-lying land, submerging it entirely around 8,200 years ago and creating the North Sea.
Project
- Draw a view of what you think Doggerland would have looked like to humans living at the time.
- Overview
- Progression
Location
| Location | The Present Day North Sea |
Fun Facts
- Doggerland wasn’t a continent, but a huge area of dry land that existed thousands of years ago where the North Sea is now.
- In the past this land was a cold but fertile home to early humans and Ice Age animals like woolly mammoths.
- The people who lived there, called the Mesolithic people, built settlements and relied on hunting, fishing, and gathering food in the area’s huge marshes.
- The land finally disappeared due to a combination of rising sea levels and a massive, ancient tsunami (a giant wave) called the Storegga Slide, which flooded the remaining low-lying land.
- Today, fishermen sometimes pull up ancient artifacts, bones, and fossilized animal remains from the sea floor that were once part of Doggerland!
Past Lessons
| 175 | November 10, 2025 | (North America) |