Geographics 
Thousands of years ago, way before anyone ever stepped onto a football pitch, Britain and the surrounding areas experienced a natural disaster so enormous that it literally changed what the European landmass looked like.
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Source/Further reading:
BBC: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160323-the-terrifying-tsunami-that-devastated-britain
Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/tsunami-britain-atlantis-6200-bc-archaeology-a9622591.html
Britannica, Storegga Slides: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Storegga-slides
Older BBC article, but still some good details: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12244964
Wave’s effect on Doggerland: https://www.bradford.ac.uk/news/archive/2020/scientists-find-new-evidence-of-massive-tsunami-that-devastated-ancient-britain-in-6200bc.php
National Geographic, Doggerland: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2012/12/doggerland/
Current Archeology: https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/searching-for-the-storegga-tsunami-in-doggerland.htm
Doggerland overview: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/maps/doggerland/
Maps of Doggerland: https://www.academia.edu/2480682/Mapping_Doggerland_the_Mesolithic_Landscapes_of_the_Southern_North_Sea
Another map of Doggerland’s potential extent: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/05/doggerland-europes-lost-land/117925
Time Team Special – Britain’s Stone Age Tsunami: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBfy2_NyBVU
Bristol Channel Floods (1607): https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/what-happened-bristol-hit-tsunami-3659686
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You lost me a climate change princess. Lol. Put your mask back on you’re having another reaction, sir.
A possible start of the flood myth working its way through the spoken history.
Oops! Sorry our lake caused so much trouble!
Britain is not a fn country
Ive only learned about Doggerland from Brits and until searching for it today i literally thought it was Doggaland (RIP rhotic R in England)
It is so wonderful and actually thoughtful that you covered this disaster, poor people, this impacted their lives for generations, yet to be forgotten and reduced to a geological layer, thankfully today we are able to interpret what happened and commemorate the loss of life
Washing
Fun fact there is another cliff face in Norway that is poss to give way ..and if it does we have Another version of this but on modern Scotland east coast and down to England east coast . Crazy eh and is ment to encroach up to 100miles in land .
Dogger land has a whole new meaning now days 😂😂 and is not as pretty either
Can I ask how they know the tsunami happened in that year?
Britain: We love the ocean it can't hurt you!
The ocean…
Fascinating!
all this before climate change , how can this be? a world warmer than today
Doggerland shows climate change is real I wonder what they were smoking that caused such high co2 levels to melt the entire wolrds ice caps
Presumably the loss of the top of the Greenland mountain recently luckily did not create a tsunami outside an inland lake.
You can't fight mother nature.
Casual time traveller here: I've just checked in with the Mesolithics. They're calling Doggerland "Shmerb-a-Flurb". L8er 🖖
Fishing boats regularly trawl up Mammoth tusks from the DoggerLand area!
Hey! I live in Delaware. Why does everyone pick on us?
So you're telling me Britain has actually got cooler since the end of the last ice age? I know climate change concerns global temperatures, but aren't we led to believe that things have never been warmer here?
To put it in perspective, the seafloor-slide was 3 times what it takes to qualify to be a supervolcano, at 1,000 cubic kilometers. Yikes!
I’ve watched this so many times it’s not even funny y
Didn't need dinghys then
A truly fascinating account, but Simon Whistler is absolutely the worst person to tell it. He is far more concerned with racing through his script with his affected voice than pacing himself so that listeners can appreciate it more fully. He really spoiled it for me.
Love your humorous storytelling style mate.
Definitely makes a change from the usual sombre severe style of most historians.
Topic is also hugely interesting ❤
Utter nonsense
No one can go back that far, because they have no reference. The earth isnt that old its ballsquirt!
What a happy chap you are! It’s best to really lay on the death thing! Like your work, very informative.
Does anyone else read the subtitles and hear it in their mind in their voice? Instead of clicking I was reading it in the recommended video list 🙄
Thanks for the interesting, if slightly worrying, video. Has anyone seriously considered the effect when all that oil and gas was mined, pumped and extracted? Replacing it with salt water is not quite the same. Does anyone care?
This video looked interesting but you lost me at 8,000 yrs ago …
Climate change….zzzzz.
I cannot unsee Scandinavia as described by Simon….