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Dogger Bank (from dogge, an old Dutch word for fishing boat) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100 km off the coast of the United Kingdom. It extends over approximately 17,600 km² (~6800 square miles), with its maximum dimensions being about 260 km / 160 miles from north to south and 95 km (~60 miles) from east to west. The water depth ranges from 15-36 metres, about 20 m shallower than the surrounding sea. Geologically, it is a moraine, formed at the southern extent of glaciation during the last ice age. At times during the last ice age it was land, either an island or joined to the mainland. Trawlers working the area have dredged up large amounts of moor peat, mammoth and rhinoceros teeth and occasionally Paleolithic hunting artifacts.