Athens through 310 million years

Athens lay at 18° south, the latitude of Santa Cruz de la Sierra today.

The first dinosaurs

Athens lay at 4° north, the latitude of Yaoundé today.

The great extinction

Athens lay at 21° north, the latitude of Hanoi today.

Homo sapiens

Athens lay at 38° north, its latitude today.

Athens today.

38° north. In 310 million years the plates have carried it some 9,600 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 18° south; 310 million years ago
Farthest south: 18° south; 310 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 240 million years ago
Distance travelled: 9,600 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.