Ganzhou through 1 billion years

Ganzhou lay at 27° north, the latitude of Lucknow today.

Farthest north.

Ganzhou lay at 87° north.

Ganzhou crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

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

Life reaches land

Ganzhou lay at 15° south, the latitude of Lilongwe today.

Ganzhou crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Ganzhou crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Ganzhou crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Ganzhou lay at 37° north, the latitude of Tunis today.

The great extinction

Ganzhou lay at 29° north, the latitude of New Delhi today.

Homo sapiens

Ganzhou lay at 26° north, its latitude today.

Ganzhou today.

26° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 59,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 27° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 15° south; 510 million years ago
Farthest north: 87° north; 790 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 570 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 440 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 340 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 320 million years ago
Distance travelled: 59,000 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.