Lobamba through 1 billion years

Lobamba lay at 6° north, the latitude of Lomé today.

Lobamba crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

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

Life reaches land

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

Farthest south.

Lobamba lay at 80° south.

The first dinosaurs

Lobamba lay at 57° south.

The great extinction

Lobamba lay at 44° south.

Homo sapiens

Lobamba lay at 27° south, its latitude today.

Lobamba today.

26° south. In 1 billion years the plates have carried it some 48,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 6° north; 1 billion years ago
Farthest south: 80° south; 340 million years ago
Farthest north: 15° north; 940 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 910 million years ago
Distance travelled: 48,000 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.