Banjul through 600 million years

Banjul lay at 60° south.

Farthest south.

Banjul lay at 78° south.

The Cambrian explosion

Banjul lay at 76° south.

Life reaches land

Banjul lay at 60° south.

The first dinosaurs

Banjul lay on the equator.

The great extinction

Banjul lay at 5° north, the latitude of Bogotá today.

Homo sapiens

Banjul lay at 13° north, its latitude today.

Banjul today.

13° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 31,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 60° south; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 78° south; 570 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 230 million years ago
Distance travelled: 31,000 kilometres; 600 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.