Liuzhou through 1 billion years

Liuzhou lay at 22° north, the latitude of Chittagong today.

Farthest north.

Liuzhou lay at 82° north.

Liuzhou crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Liuzhou lay at 13° south, the latitude of Lima today.

Life reaches land

Liuzhou lay at 17° south, the latitude of La Paz today.

Liuzhou crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Liuzhou crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Liuzhou crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Liuzhou crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Liuzhou crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Liuzhou lay at 33° north, the latitude of Tripoli today.

The great extinction

Liuzhou lay at 26° north, the latitude of Manama today.

Homo sapiens

Liuzhou lay at 24° north, its latitude today.

Liuzhou today.

24° north. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 57,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 22° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 19° south; 510 million years ago
Farthest north: 82° north; 790 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 580 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 430 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 420 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 370 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 350 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 310 million years ago
Distance travelled: 57,000 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.