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- Instance of
- upland
- Part of
- Doggerland
- Named after
- bank
- Country
- Germany
- Area
- 17600
- Body of water
- North Sea
- Image
- Doggerbank.jpg
- Length
- 260
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- Dogger Bank
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- Dogger Bank
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Encyclopedic overview
Dogger Bank (Dutch: Doggersbank, German: Doggerbank, Danish: Doggerbanke) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100 kilometres (55 nautical miles) off the east coast of England.
During the last ice age, the bank was part of a large landmass connecting mainland Europe and the British Isles, now known as Doggerland. It has long been known by fishermen to be a productive fishing bank; it was named after the doggers, medieval Dutch fishing boats especially used for catching cod.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dogger Bank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.