Majuro through 140 million years

Majuro lay at 24° south, the latitude of Gaborone today.

The great extinction

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

Homo sapiens

Majuro lay at 7° north, its latitude today.

Majuro today.

7° north. In 140 million years the plates have carried it some 10,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 24° south; 140 million years ago
Farthest south: 26° south; 130 million years ago
Farthest north: 9° north; 10 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 60 million years ago
Distance travelled: 10,000 kilometres; 140 million years

other places

South Tarawa
Yaren District
Palikir
Apia
Tokyo
Sydney
Canberra
Busan
Dili
Wellington

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.