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		cjrp 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK's first small nuclear power station to be built... And that area of the sea is still known as "Dogger" in the shipping forecast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_Forecast#/media/File:...

griffzhowl 31 days ago [–]

That part of the sea as well as Doggerland itself are named afer Dogger Bank, a large sandbank that must have been some promontory on Doggerland.

Dogger Bank in turn seems to be named after a kind of Dutch fishing boat called a dogger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank

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