Gaborone through 1 billion years

Gaborone lay at 1° north, the latitude of Singapore today.

Gaborone crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Gaborone lay at 45° south.

Life reaches land

Gaborone lay at 27° south, the latitude of Lobamba today.

Farthest south.

Gaborone lay at 77° south.

The first dinosaurs

Gaborone lay at 53° south.

The great extinction

Gaborone lay at 41° south, the latitude of Wellington today.

Homo sapiens

Gaborone lay at 25° south, its latitude today.

Gaborone today.

25° south. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 47,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 1° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 77° south; 340 million years ago
Farthest north: 11° north; 940 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 920 million years ago
Distance travelled: 47,000 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.