Dublin through 600 million years

Dublin lay at 43° south, the latitude of Wellington today.

The Cambrian explosion

Dublin lay at 61° south.

Life reaches land

Dublin lay at 50° south.

Dublin crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Dublin lay at 25° north, the latitude of Doha today.

The great extinction

Dublin lay at 43° north, the latitude of Bishkek today.

Homo sapiens

Dublin lay at 53° north, its latitude today.

Dublin today.

53° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 33,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 43° south; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 62° south; 530 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 330 million years ago
Distance travelled: 33,000 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.