Every year there is less to see and my memory tries its best to forget what it has known, for fear of being made too sad by the reality of that loss. We learn to grow accustomed to the absences, because it seems we have no choice.
Julia Blackburn,
Time Song: Searching for Doggerland.
Doggerland 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 6,500–6,200 BC. Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from Britain's east coast to the Netherlands and the western coasts of Germany and the peninsula of Jutland.