in the 11,400 years since the end of the last ice age, sea  level has risen at an average of 4 feet/century, though it is now rising  much more slowly because very nearly all of the land-based ice that is  at low enough latitudes and altitudes to melt has long since gone."
in the 11,400 years since the end of the last ice age, sea  level has risen at an average of 4 feet/century, though it is now rising  much more slowly because very nearly all of the land-based ice that is  at low enough latitudes and altitudes to melt has long since gone."
last glacial period:80
as a result of melting ice, the land has continued to rise yearly in scandinavia, mostly in northern sweden and finland where the land is rising at a rate of as much as 8–9 mm per year, or 1 meter in 100 years.