Bengaluru through 1 billion years

Bengaluru lay on the equator.

Farthest north.

Bengaluru lay at 65° north.

Bengaluru crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Bengaluru lay at 37° south, the latitude of Melbourne today.

Life reaches land

Bengaluru lay at 32° south, the latitude of Santiago today.

Farthest south.

Bengaluru lay at 75° south.

The first dinosaurs

Bengaluru lay at 43° south.

The great extinction

Bengaluru lay at 33° south, the latitude of Santiago today.

Bengaluru crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Homo sapiens

Bengaluru lay at 13° north, its latitude today.

Bengaluru today.

13° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 57,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 0° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 75° south; 340 million years ago
Farthest north: 65° north; 810 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 610 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 30 million years ago
Distance travelled: 57,000 kilometres; 1 billion 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.