Khartoum through 1 billion years

Khartoum lay at 24° south, the latitude of São Paulo today.

The Cambrian explosion

Khartoum lay at 57° south.

Farthest south.

Khartoum lay at 68° south.

Life reaches land

Khartoum lay at 59° south.

The first dinosaurs

Khartoum lay at 18° south, the latitude of Harare today.

The great extinction

Khartoum lay at 2° south, the latitude of Kigali today.

Khartoum crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Homo sapiens

Khartoum lay at 15° north, its latitude today.

Khartoum today.

16° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 43,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 24° south; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 68° south; 510 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 50 million years ago
Distance travelled: 43,000 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.