Karachi through 850 million years

Karachi lay at 54° north, the latitude of Dublin today.

Farthest north.

Karachi lay at 62° north.

Karachi crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Karachi lay at 38° south, the latitude of Melbourne today.

Life reaches land

Karachi lay at 40° south, the latitude of Wellington today.

Farthest south.

Karachi lay at 60° south.

The first dinosaurs

Karachi lay at 28° south, the latitude of Bloemfontein today.

The great extinction

Karachi lay at 19° south, the latitude of Antananarivo today.

Karachi crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Homo sapiens

Karachi lay at 25° north, its latitude today.

Karachi today.

25° north. In 850 million years the plates have carried it some 48,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 54° north; 850 million years ago
Farthest south: 60° south; 340 million years ago
Farthest north: 62° north; 810 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 600 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 50 million years ago
Distance travelled: 48,000 kilometres; 850 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.