[expat_panama]

I like the way you put quotes on "drifted".  I'd put quotes on "British Isles" too

Just 10k years ago the "isles" were a peninsula.  At 50k y.a. they may have been a lake. 

That's why I doubt they were islands off the coast of Normandy as far back as 400k y.a.

[blam]

"I like the way you put quotes on "drifted". I'd put quotes on "British Isles" too "

LOL. I know about the Ice Age connections. I suppose I should have said 'from a GPS mark 400,000 years ago to a GPS mark today', there is about a 12.5 mile difference.

[unspun]

Interesting that this map depicts so much change in the NW, whereas the Mediterranean has such little change.

[blam]

"Just 10k years ago the "isles" were a peninsula. At 50k y.a. they may have been a lake."

Click here to see a map of the world with the ocean level reduced by about 300ft...then, imagine it reduced by 500ft as some believe it was during the Ice Age, Glacial Maximum.
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) occured about 18,000 years ago.