Interactive Map
Every wind farm, turbine, substation, platform, protected area and ferry crossing in the southern North Sea, drawn from open marine data; and over them, the indicative outline of Nieuw Doggerland.
The Dogger Bank sits in the central North Sea, roughly midway between Britain and Denmark. It is the drowned high ground of ancient Doggerland: a broad, shallow sandbank plateau in otherwise deep sea. Switch the basemap to bathymetry and the logic of the whole project becomes visible; the bank glows pale against the surrounding blue. Hover anywhere at sea (or tap open water on a phone) and the map reads out the depth beneath the cursor.
That shallowness is why the world's offshore wind industry is already here. The 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, among the largest on Earth, occupies the bank's flanks for the same reason Nieuw Haven and the island towns are drawn on the shallow plateau to its south-west, just below the Hornsea wind farms: foundations, and one day islands, are viable at 20 to 30 metres in a way they are not at 80.
The gold outlines are the plan: the Nieuw Doggerland project area south of the Hornsea wind farms; Nieuw Haven, the hub island, with the island towns beside it on the shallow plateau; the wildlife islands in the sanctuary shallows to the south-west, closed to the public from the day they surface; and the ferry link running between Immingham and IJmuiden. Every structure is sited clear of the protected sandbank seabed, and all of it is indicative; nothing here is surveyed or final.
The corridor is already a working one. Switch on the ferry layer for the crossings that sail it today: P&O nightly from Hull to Rotterdam, DFDS from Newcastle into IJmuiden and out of Immingham for Rotterdam and Norway, and Stena's Hoek van Holland freight service, which moved into Immingham in April 2025. The nearest of them passes about 40 km from the proposed islands.
The Layers
Gold marks what does not yet exist: the project-area boundary, Nieuw Haven and the island towns on the shallow plateau south of the Hornsea wind farms, and the dotted ferry link between Immingham and IJmuiden. Solid green marks the wildlife islands in the sanctuary shallows: engineered for seabirds and seals, never for people. Toggle the ecology zoning to see the indicative lagoon and gravel-bed habitats, kept in separate water.
The green dashed boundaries are the sandbank Special Areas of Conservation, protecting the Annex I sandbank habitat; they are the governing constraint, and no planned structure touches them. Violet is the Southern North Sea SAC for harbour porpoise, a mobile-species site where the concern is disturbance, not lost seabed: the wildlife sanctuary sits deliberately within it. Seabird and seabed sites are a toggle away.
Blue areas are the wind farms standing today; consented and planned zones sit behind their own toggle, since they cover roughly five times the sea the built farms do. Zoom past the opening view and individual turbines appear inside each farm, including those going into the water now on sites the official record still lists as merely approved. Grey dashes are the ferry crossings sailing today, the gold dots the transport link that has yet to be built; both are broken lines because no two sailings take quite the same path. Substations, oil and gas platforms and the fields of the older North Sea economy are all a toggle away.
Sources
The real layers are open marine data, redrawn in our own style; the planned layers are ours alone. Anyone can check our geography, which is rather the point.
Ferry routes are the mapped tracks of services we have checked against their operators' published schedules; they show which crossings run and roughly where, not the passage plan any given sailing takes. Planned geometry (the project area, Nieuw Haven, the islands, the transport link and the ecology zoning) is indicative only, not surveyed or final. Every structure is sited on the shallow plateau south of the Hornsea wind farms, outside the sandbank SACs, so the designated Annex I seabed is left intact. The wildlife sanctuary sits within the Southern North Sea SAC (harbour porpoise), a mobile-species site where the islands create habitat rather than convert protected seabed; the lagoon and gravel systems are kept in separate water.
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This map is a living, data-grounded sketch of Nieuw Doggerland. If you can help refine the geography (marine surveyors, GIS and bathymetry specialists, offshore engineers), there is a place for you in the Founding Circle.
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