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Doggerland: the landscape beneath the North Sea
Doggerland names a former landscape in the area now occupied by the southern North Sea. Its history includes changing coasts, human occupation and progressive loss of dry land.
A landscape recovered from the seabed
Marine geophysical surveys and sediment cores reveal features of the former landscape. Archaeological finds and environmental records add evidence of the people and ecosystems that occupied parts of it. These sources have different spatial coverage; a smooth digital shoreline should not be mistaken for a complete archaeological survey.
References: Walker et al. (2020) — A great wave: the Storegga tsunami and the end of Doggerland?
Did one tsunami destroy Doggerland?
The Storegga tsunami affected the North Sea region around 8,200 years ago. Research discusses a complex impact shaped by local topography and already rising seas, rather than the simple claim that all Doggerland disappeared in one wave. The survival and final drowning of particular areas need regional evidence.
References: Walker et al. (2020) — A great wave: the Storegga tsunami and the end of Doggerland?
Explore without inventing a flooding date
Start at 21,000 BP to see the broader exposed shelf, then move toward the Holocene. This view is not a map of a single Mesolithic settlement landscape. The atlas has neither the local reconstruction nor the tsunami model needed to show exactly when a named site flooded.