Dili through 410 million years

Dili lay at 7° south, the latitude of Dar es Salaam today.

The first dinosaurs

Dili lay at 34° south, the latitude of Cape Town today.

Farthest south.

Dili lay at 46° south.

The great extinction

Dili lay at 35° south, the latitude of Canberra today.

Homo sapiens

Dili lay at 9° south, its latitude today.

Dili today.

9° south. In 410 million years the plates have carried it some 16,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 7° south; 410 million years ago
Farthest south: 46° south; 150 million years ago
Farthest north: 7° south; 410 million years ago
Distance travelled: 16,000 kilometres; 410 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.