Lahore through 850 million years

Lahore lay at 61° north, the latitude of Helsinki today.

Farthest north.

Lahore lay at 71° north.

Lahore crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

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

Life reaches land

Lahore lay at 32° south, the latitude of Santiago today.

Farthest south.

Lahore lay at 57° south.

The first dinosaurs

Lahore lay at 30° south, the latitude of Maseru today.

The great extinction

Lahore lay at 15° south, the latitude of Lilongwe today.

Homo sapiens

Lahore lay at 31° north, its latitude today.

Lahore today.

32° north. In 850 million years the plates have carried it some 48,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 61° north; 850 million years ago
Farthest south: 57° south; 330 million years ago
Farthest north: 71° north; 800 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 590 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 60 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.