Tristan McConnell

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2024

Tristan McConnell is a freelance writer and editor specializing in stories about landscape, time, nature, and coexistence. He has written for National Geographic, Emergence Magazine, Aeon, GQ, The Atlantic, New Yorker, and Harper’s, among many others, and his reporting on conflicts and the environment have won some awards. After living in different parts of Africa for almost two decades, he is now based in the United Kingdom.

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Tidal flats in Denmark's Wadden Sea National Park show what the land on the edge of the North Sea looks like today.

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Exploring the Lost Land Beneath the North Sea

New research reveals that Doggerland—a sunken swath of Europe connecting Britain to the mainland—was more than a simple thoroughfare. It was home.

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