Lagos through 1 billion years

Lagos lay at 47° south.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model
47° south
1 billion years ago
Farthest south
82° south
550 million years ago
Crossed the equator
20 million years ago
Distance travelled
47,000 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.