Casablanca through 600 million years

Casablanca lay at 39° south, the latitude of Melbourne today.

The Cambrian explosion

Casablanca lay at 69° south.

Life reaches land

Casablanca lay at 78° south.

Farthest south.

Casablanca lay at 88° south.

Casablanca crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Casablanca lay at 13° north, the latitude of Aden today.

The great extinction

Casablanca lay at 22° north, the latitude of Maoming today.

Homo sapiens

Casablanca lay at 33° north, its latitude today.

Casablanca today.

34° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 32,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 39° south; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 88° south; 440 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 290 million years ago
Distance travelled: 32,000 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.