Jieyang through 1 billion years

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

Farthest north.

Jieyang lay at 87° north.

Jieyang crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Jieyang lay at 6° south, the latitude of Dodoma today.

Life reaches land

Jieyang lay at 12° south, the latitude of Lima today.

Jieyang crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Jieyang crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Jieyang crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Jieyang lay at 36° north, the latitude of Tokyo today.

The great extinction

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

Homo sapiens

Jieyang lay at 24° north, its latitude today.

Jieyang today.

24° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 58,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 29° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 13° 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: 350 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 320 million years ago
Distance travelled: 58,000 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.