Harare through 1 billion years

Harare lay at 1° north, the latitude of Libreville today.

Harare crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Harare lay at 46° south.

Life reaches land

Harare lay at 32° south.

Farthest south.

Harare lay at 83° south.

The first dinosaurs

Harare lay at 49° south.

The great extinction

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

Homo sapiens

Harare lay at 18° south, its latitude today.

Harare today.

18° south. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 46,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 1° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 83° south; 340 million years ago
Farthest north: 10° north; 940 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 920 million years ago
Distance travelled: 46,000 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.