Manama through 600 million years

Manama lay at 6° north, the latitude of Accra today.

The Cambrian explosion

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

Farthest south.

Manama lay at 55° south.

Life reaches land

Manama lay at 50° south.

The first dinosaurs

Manama lay at 14° south, the latitude of Apia today.

Manama crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The great extinction

Manama lay at 5° north, the latitude of Abidjan today.

Homo sapiens

Manama lay at 26° north, its latitude today.

Manama today.

26° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 29,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 6° north; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 55° south; 500 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 590 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 100 million years ago
Distance travelled: 29,000 kilometres; 600 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.