On a clear day...
On a really clear day you can see France from Folkestone. That narrow stretch of water has saved us twice from invasion in fairly recent history. But it wasn’t always like this. This was once dry land albeit land slowly being submerged as sea levels rose. But around 6,100BC it is thought that landslides in Norway triggered one of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded on Earth when a landlocked sea in the Norwegian trench burst its banks. The water struck the north-east of Britain with such force it travelled 25 miles (40km) inland, turning low-lying plains into what is now the North Sea, and marshlands to the south into the Channel. Thus Britain became an island nation.
On a clear day...
On a really clear day you can see France from Folkestone. That narrow stretch of water has saved us twice from invasion in fairly recent history. But it wasn’t always like this. This was once dry land albeit land slowly being submerged as sea levels rose. But around 6,100BC it is thought that landslides in Norway triggered one of the biggest tsunamis ever recorded on Earth when a landlocked sea in the Norwegian trench burst its banks. The water struck the north-east of Britain with such force it travelled 25 miles (40km) inland, turning low-lying plains into what is now the North Sea, and marshlands to the south into the Channel. Thus Britain became an island nation.