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An article attributed to Australian Christian History and Heritage tells a different story: "de Quiros had not discovered Terra Australis Incognita, but only the largest island in what was later known as the New Hebrides group. He had named the land after Philip III of Spain, a prince of the House of Austria, and did not derive it from Terra Australia, or the austral region featured for so long on maps." The Doggerland project", Professor Bryony Coles, University of Exeter. Includes hypothesised map of Doggerland in the early Holocene. The first known written use of the word Britain was an ancient Greek transliteration of the original Proto-Celtic term in a work on the travels and discoveries of Pytheas that has not survived. The earliest existing records of the word are quotations of the periplus by later authors, such as those within Strabo's Geographica, Pliny's Natural History and Diodorus of Sicily's Bibliotheca historica. [20] Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) in his Natural History records of Great Britain: "Its former name was Albion; but at a later period, all the islands, of which we shall just now briefly make mention, were included under the name of 'Britanniæ.'" [21] a b B.J. Coles. "Doggerland: a speculative survey (Doggerland: une prospection spéculative)", Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, ISSN 0079-497X, 1998, vol. 64, pp. 45–81 (3 p. 1/4) a b "Facts and Figures about Wildflowers". WildAboutFlowers.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 February 2008. Retrieved on 23 February 2009.

We have speculated for years on the lost land's existence from bones dredged by fishermen all over the North Sea, but it's only since working with oil companies in the last few years that we have been able to re-create what this lost land looked like ... We have now been able to model its flora and fauna, build up a picture of the ancient people that lived there and begin to understand some of the dramatic events that subsequently changed the land, including the sea rising and a devastating tsunami. Vincent Gaffney, "Global Warming and the Lost European Country" " (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 March 2012 . Retrieved 24 February 2012. People and Plants: Mapping the UK's wild flora" (PDF). PlantLife.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2007. Retrieved on 23 February 2009. Interest was reinvigorated in the 1990s by Bryony Coles, who named the area "Doggerland" "after the great banks in the southern North Sea" [11] – and produced speculative maps of the area. [11] [18] Although she recognised that the current relief of the southern North Sea seabed is not a sound guide to the topography of Doggerland, [18] this topography has more recently begun to be reconstructed more authoritatively using seismic survey data obtained from oil exploration. a b BBC News, "Hidden Doggerland underworld uncovered in North Sea", 3 July 2012. Accessed 4 July 2012Germanic speakers referred to Britons as Welsh. This term came to be applied exclusively to the inhabitants of what is now Wales, but it also survives in names such as Wallace and in the second syllable of Cornwall. Cymry, a name the Britons used to describe themselves, is similarly restricted in modern Welsh to people from Wales, but also survives in English in the place name of Cumbria. The Britons living in the areas now known as Wales, Cumbria and Cornwall were not assimilated by the Germanic tribes, a fact reflected in the survival of Celtic languages in these areas into more recent times. [50] At the time of the Germanic invasion of southern Britain, many Britons emigrated to the area now known as Brittany, where Breton, a Celtic language closely related to Welsh and Cornish and descended from the language of the emigrants, is still spoken. In the 9th century, a series of Danish assaults on northern English kingdoms led to them coming under Danish control (an area known as the Danelaw). In the 10th century, however, all the English kingdoms were unified under one ruler as the kingdom of England when the last constituent kingdom, Northumbria, submitted to Edgar in 959. In 1066, England was conquered by the Normans, who introduced a Norman-speaking administration that was eventually assimilated. Wales came under Anglo-Norman control in 1282, and was officially annexed to England in the 16th century. Who's who? Meet Northern Ireland's Olympic hopefuls in Team GB and Team IRE". www.BBC.co.uk. BBC News. 28 July 2012. Ptolemy, Claudius (1898). "Ἕκθεσις τῶν κατὰ παράλληλον ἰδιωμάτων: κβ', κε' " (PDF). In Heiberg, J.L. (ed.). Claudii Ptolemaei Opera quae exstant omnia. Vol.1 Syntaxis Mathematica. Leipzig: in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. pp.112–113. Among the hail and hearty was a Portuguese navigator and explorer Pedro Ferdinand de Quiros who sailed into Australian folklore in the year 1606. Census: Population Estimates for the United Kingdom. In the 2011 census, the population of England, Wales and Scotland was estimated to be approximately 61,370,000; comprising 60,800,000 on Great Britain, and 570,000 on other islands. Retrieved 23 January 2014

Jews in Scotland". British-Jewry.org.uk. Archived from the original on 9 May 2005. Retrieved on 1 February 2009. a b c d "Global Warming and Lost Lands: Understanding the Effects of Sea Level Rise | livebetter Magazine" . Retrieved 9 February 2021. A recent hypothesis suggests that around 6200BCE much of the remaining coastal land was flooded by a tsunami caused by a submarine landslide off the coast of Norway known as the Storegga Slide. This suggests "that the Storegga Slide tsunami would have had a catastrophic impact on the contemporary coastal Mesolithic population ... Britain finally became separated from the continent and in cultural terms, the Mesolithic there goes its own way." [14] A study published in 2014 suggested that the only remaining parts of Doggerland at the time of the Storegga Slide were low-lying islands, but supported the view that the area had been abandoned at about the same time as the tsunamis. [4] Marcianus Heracleensis; Müller, Karl Otfried; etal. (1855). "Periplus Maris Exteri, Liber Prior, Prooemium". In Firmin Didot, Ambrosio (ed.). Geographi Graeci Minores. Vol.1. Paris: editore Firmin Didot. pp.516–517. Greek text and Latin Translation thereof archived at the Internet Archive. Further information: History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom) Philip II of Macedon, Alexander's father

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Cardinal not much altered by his new job". Living Scotsman . Retrieved 15 August 2011. Retrieved on 1 February 2009. Cunliffe, Barry (2002). The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek (reviseded.). New York: Walker & Co. ISBN 0-14-029784-7. OCLC 49692050. In 2012 the results of study of Doggerland by the universities of Birmingham, St Andrews, Dundee, and Aberdeen, including surveys of artefacts, were displayed at the Royal Society summer exhibition in London. [28] Richard Bates of St Andrews University said: [28]

The Dust Bowl, also known as “the Dirty Thirties,” started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer. Rodents make up 40% of the mammal species. [ citation needed] These include squirrels, mice, voles, rats and the recently reintroduced European beaver. [60] There is also an abundance of European rabbit, European hare, shrews, European mole and several species of bat. [60] Carnivorous mammals include the red fox, Eurasian badger, Eurasian otter, weasel, stoat and elusive Scottish wildcat. [61] Various species of seal, whale and dolphin are found on or around British shores and coastlines. The largest land-based wild animals today are deer. The red deer is the largest species, with roe deer and fallow deer also prominent; the latter was introduced by the Normans. [61] [62] Sika deer and two more species of smaller deer, muntjac and Chinese water deer, have been introduced, muntjac becoming widespread in England and parts of Wales while Chinese water deer are restricted mainly to East Anglia. Habitat loss has affected many species. Extinct large mammals include the brown bear, grey wolf and wild boar; the latter has had a limited reintroduction in recent times. [60] Great Britain refers geographically to the island of Great Britain. Politically, it may refer to the whole of England, Scotland and Wales, including their smaller offshore islands. [35] It is not technically correct to use the term to refer to the whole of the United Kingdom which includes Northern Ireland, though the Oxford English Dictionary states "...the term is also used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom." [36] [37] People here 'must obey the laws of the land' ". The Daily Telegraph. London. 9 February 2008. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 4 May 2010. Retrieved on 1 February 2009.British Wildflower Images". Map-Reading.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 April 2010 . Retrieved 23 August 2009. Retrieved on 23 February 2009. Global Anglicanism at a Crossroads". PewResearch.org. 19 June 2008. Archived from the original on 13 August 2011 . Retrieved 15 August 2011. Retrieved on 1 February 2009. Ezekiel 47:19 The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the great sea. This is the south side southward. Morelle, Rebecca (4 April 2017). "Evidence of ancient 'geological Brexit' revealed". BBC News . Retrieved 5 April 2017. On May 11, 1934, a massive dust storm two miles high traveled 2,000 miles to the East Coast, blotting out monuments such as the Statue of Liberty and the U.S. Capitol.