Dalian through 1 billion years

Dalian lay at 37° north, the latitude of Algiers today.

Dalian crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Farthest north.

Dalian lay at 61° north.

The Cambrian explosion

Dalian lay at 19° north, the latitude of Port-au-Prince today.

Dalian crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Life reaches land

Dalian lay at 8° south, the latitude of Dili today.

Dalian crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Dalian lay at 49° north, the latitude of Luxembourg today.

The great extinction

Dalian lay at 43° north, the latitude of Pristina today.

Homo sapiens

Dalian lay at 39° north, its latitude today.

Dalian today.

39° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 61,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 37° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 11° south; 460 million years ago
Farthest north: 61° north; 720 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 870 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 860 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 510 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 450 million years ago
Distance travelled: 61,000 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.