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2 unusual facts about Dogger Bank


Dogger

Dogger Bank, a large shallow area in the North Sea between Britain and Denmark

Franz von Hipper

In early January 1915, it became known to the German naval command that British ships were conducting reconnaissance in the Dogger Bank area.


Outer Silver Pit

When the sea level was lower (such as in the Ice Age) it was a lake in Doggerland, and sea-bed-penetrating sonar bathymetry has found its shorelines and courses and estuaries of rivers that ran into it from the high land of the Dogger Bank; it overflowed into a river at its west end.


see also

Dogger Bank itch

Dogger Bank itch is a cutaneous condition characterized by an eczematous dermatitis caused by exposure to the sea chervil, Alcyonidium diaphanum, a seaweed-like animal colony.