Brazzaville through 1 billion years

Brazzaville lay at 47° south.

The Cambrian explosion

Brazzaville lay at 67° south.

Life reaches land

Brazzaville lay at 50° south.

Farthest south.

Brazzaville lay at 88° south.

The first dinosaurs

Brazzaville lay at 30° south, the latitude of Maseru today.

The great extinction

Brazzaville lay at 20° south, the latitude of Sucre today.

Homo sapiens

Brazzaville lay at 4° south, its latitude today.

Brazzaville today.

4° south. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 46,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 47° south; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 88° south; 380 million years ago
Distance travelled: 46,000 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.