Huanggang through 700 million years

Huanggang lay at 41° north, the latitude of New York City today.

Huanggang crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Huanggang lay at 9° south, the latitude of Luanda today.

Life reaches land

Huanggang lay at 18° south, the latitude of Santa Cruz de la Sierra today.

Huanggang crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Huanggang lay at 41° north, the latitude of New York City today.

Farthest north.

Huanggang lay at 55° north.

The great extinction

Huanggang lay at 33° north, the latitude of Baghdad today.

Homo sapiens

Huanggang lay at 31° north, its latitude today.

Huanggang today.

30° north. In 700 million years the plates have carried it some 44,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 41° north; 700 million years ago
Farthest south: 18° south; 480 million years ago
Farthest north: 55° north; 210 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 570 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 440 million years ago
Distance travelled: 44,000 kilometres; 700 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.