Astana through 310 million years

Astana lay at 38° north, the latitude of Cangzhou today.

The first dinosaurs

Astana lay at 59° north, the latitude of Stockholm today.

Farthest north.

Astana lay at 70° north.

The great extinction

Astana lay at 46° north, the latitude of Ottawa today.

Homo sapiens

Astana lay at 51° north, its latitude today.

Astana today.

51° north. In 310 million years the plates have carried it some 11,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 38° north; 310 million years ago
Farthest south: 38° north; 310 million years ago
Farthest north: 70° north; 200 million years ago
Distance travelled: 11,000 kilometres; 310 million years

other places

Positions come from the plate model of Merdith and colleagues (2021), through the GPlates Web Service of the EarthByte Group at the University of Sydney. The globe shows today's coastlines carried back with their plates, not the shorelines of the time, so it does not say whether a place was land or sea. Cities and their coordinates come from Wikidata.