Somewhere between 6500 and 6200 BC, rising waters finally submerged the broad area of land that had connected Great Britain with continental Europe. The region extended from the eastern coast of what is now Britain to the Netherlands, the western coastline of Germany, and the Jutland peninsula. It was once a rich natural habitat inhabited by Mesolithic peoples. What name has modern science given to this vanished territory, if the term comes from seventeenth-century Dutch fishing craft?