And in other news, thanks to Storm Chandra, our colleagues from @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Maritime Archaeology have found a part of the Fame of Hoorn, an armed Dutch merchant ship that sank in 1631 #Archaeology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does your town (or any you know of) have HERRING🐟 in their coat of arms/flag? Please reply tagging in @projectfishistory.bsky.social if so! @thefsbi.bsky.social @icesmarine.bsky.social @ystadaucymru.bsky.social Ceredigion County (Wales) Great Yarmouth (England) Nefyn (Wales) Scheveningen (NL)

Anyone out there want to tell the good people of Cardiff about #vikings? royalhistsoc.org/calendar/nor...

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea – Will there be a major inflow of saltwater from the North Sea? - IOW www.iow.de/message/item...

Looking up yesterday @naturalis.bsky.social in Leiden

England. Leaking away. #CoastalErosion

North Sea Friday Folk #4 — lives shaped by the shallow sea on our doorstep Today it’s the turn of Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) who in his youth lived in Grimstad on the south coast of Norway, becoming friends with local sea pilot Svend Hanssen Haaø. 1/3 📸 AB Wilse (Norsk Folkemuseum)

View on Antwerp anno 1540, when the city was Europe’s most important trading hub. Antwerpia in Brabancia, MAS, Antwerp.

Accelerating coastal erosion is destroying homes, threatening burial grounds and exposing the absence of a national response | Owen Sennitt, Local Democracy Reporter

We’re thrilled to launch the BlueSky page for CONTACT 🧪We are using radiocarbon, isotopes, DNA & historical analysis to map the timeline of Norse expansion into North America. Follow along! A 5-year ERC-funded project @rug.nl #Norse #Archaeology #NorthAtlantic #Research

One from the archive for World Wetlands Day. shellydennison.co.uk/2023/09/15/w... #NatureWriting

I wrote about the first flight across the North Sea in July 1914

Flandriacetus is both one of the largest and latest surviving of these early longirostrine ziphiids from the late Miocene of the North Sea. This whale is similar to its smaller relative Messapicetus, with numerous small teeth along its mouth and a relatively long, flexible neck for snapping up fish

🌊 This week's North Sea Nexus post — on the first flight across the North Sea in July 1914

North Sea Friday Folk #3 — lives shaped by the shallow sea on our doorstep Today it’s the turn of American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910), whose 18-month stay in the fishing village of Cullercoats in NE England took his painting to new heights 🖼️ Inside the Bar, 1883, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Here's an untitled, unfinished map of an unknown piece of coastline, illustrated by William #Scoresby Junior at an unknown date. Is it the #Arctic? Hard to say. Do I wish Scoresby titled his drafts? Certainly. #Archives #Exploration #Museums

The sea never sleeps. Busted gabions at Scratby in Norfolk. #coastalerosion

1968, Faroe Islands. The Faroes v The Orkney Islands on a clay pitch. It was a game in The North Atlantic Cup, a tournament which also featured The Shetland Islands

Starting off a new year on the blog by tackling a big question longhairedkingsblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/23/w...

The latest North Sea dispatches from me

It's gone folks!

North Sea Friday Folk #2 — lives shaped by the shallow sea on our doorstep Today it’s the turn of St Hild, first abbess of Whitby Abbey Shown here with ammonite fossils at her feet — a nod to the legend that Hild turned local snakes to stone 📸 Wilson44691 (CC0)

Apardjón is pleased to present its newest special volume, Connections and the Church in Late Norse Scotland, edited by Caitlin Ellis and Tom Fairfax. We would like to thank all authors for contributing, and Caitlin Ellis and Tom Fairfax for their work. #MedievalSky www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/researc...

Occasionally we get tiny Goldcrests in the garden, hunting for insects amongst the evergreens. They’re resident in Britain, but some Goldcrests cross the North Sea to escape the harsher continental winters; people used to believe they rode on the backs of migrating Woodcocks. (watercolour) 🐡🪶

"Jeevan Vasagar traces humanity's responses to flooding over the centuries, from the deadly North Sea floods of 1953 to the catastrophic events of today" Looking forward to reading this. Out next month.

🇩🇪🏝️ Located in the North Sea 60km away from the German mainland, the Heligoland islands are home to 1,500 people & one football club. But with ferry journeys taking two hours & overnight stays too expensive, VfL Fosite Helgoland cannot play in national competitions and are restricted to friendlies.

Left: German botanist Jacob Bobart the Elder (1596–1680), first appointed keeper of the Oxford “Physic” Garden, in front of the Danby Gate entrance. Right: The Danby Gate today at the entrance to the Oxford Botanic Garden (Philip Halling: CC BY-SA 2.0). 1/2

This week's North Sea Nexus post on advancing trees and botanical exchanges across the sea

🌊North Sea Friday Folk #1 — lives shaped by the shallow sea on our doorstep Kicking us off is Krijn, the name given to the owner of a skull fragment recovered from the bottom of the North Sea in 2001 A young male Neanderthal living 50,000-70,000 years ago in the now submerged landscape Doggerland

This sounds like a wonderful project! "Blending the sounds of shoreline life with the voices of local communities, Songs from the Solent is the result of Richard Walters’ deep dive into one of the UK’s most distinctive coastal landscapes."

The Mary Rose ? The Vasa ? Well, I present to you the 'Fin de la Guerre' a massive ship built by Antwerp during the city's siege (1584-1585). The ship was essentially a floating castle that could man 1000 musketeers & countless pieces of artillery. It was so heavy it ran aground.

Once upon a time there was a bustling harbour between Castle Rising and Babingley - deep enough to accommodate large sailing ships that entered from The Wash. But then the River Babingley silted up. #Ozymandias

Among all the details of this great watercolour showing the interior of a British museum around the 1780s, is a #Greenland Kayak (in the upper right corner). This collection of Sir Ashton Lever (1729-1788) echoes the #earlymodern Wunderkammer and adds a colonial interest of the world. #skystorians

"When it was built in the late 1950s the bunker was more than 100 yards from the sea." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Itämeri is the Finnish name for the Baltic Sea, literally translatable as 'east sea'. Yet keen-eyed geographers will know that the Baltic is in fact on the west side of Finland. So, Itämeri must be a calque of a Germanic word, likely Swedish Östersjön, coined with the Baltic to the speaker's east.

The #NorthSeaObservatory is a purpose built marine observatory. This stunning building near #ChapelStLeonards on the #Lincolnshire coast looks out over the North Sea Painted on an original #VintageMap from 1962 #LincsConnect #WomanInBizHour #CraftBizParty #GiftIdeas #Upcycled #ArtForSale

Some lovely snowy conditions last week. Not many images are seen like this on the North Northumberland coast 😄 #northumberland #photography

“That those who are safe on land may ever remember and pray for the many who go down to the sea in ships.”

During these challenging times, we could all benefit from a smile, so I would like to present the oldest smile in the world: the Mannetje van Willemstad (the little man from Willemstad, Netherlands). The Mesolithic figurine, dating about 5400 BC, was carved in oak wood. 🧵 1/2 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Sea Palling - reefs protecting the Norfolk coast. The low winter sun highlighting the swells and ripples in the cold North Sea. #SeaPalling #aerial #image #Norfolk #coast #snow

The first Monday after today Epiphany - 6 January) was Plough Monday, the traditional start of the agricultural year. It was celebrated with young men called "Plough Stotts" parading a decorated plough, performing sword dances, and collecting money for church plough

No surprise that today’s Copernicus Image of the Day is of the unusually stubborn snow currently blanketing Utrecht (European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery) www.copernicus.eu/en/media/ima...

LUSHINGTON, sb. A man fond of drink. 'He's a reg'lar lushington, 'most always drunk.'

More snow in Utrecht today, and the trees continue to look like giant Christmas cake decorations

Yesterday's Copernicus Image of the Day: 🌊 Suspended sediments in the North Sea around the port of Zeebrugge on the Belgian coast (European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery) www.copernicus.eu/en/media/ima...

[September 28th, 1980] German auto dealer Jaromir Wagner completes first leg of record flight, standing atop plane for 6 hours across 700 miles North Sea. Next legs to Iceland, Greenland, and New York.

A tale of three norths in three photos 1️⃣ The pier at Berwick-upon-Tweed, where the rare triple alignment of the Three Norths (True North, Grid North, Magnetic North) left England in December 2025, drifting out into the North Sea. 📸 Lewis Clarke (CC BY-SA 2.0)

After the very light dusting yesterday, this morning brings some proper snow