Moroni through 130 million years

Moroni lay at 35° south, the latitude of Canberra today.

The great extinction

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

Homo sapiens

Moroni lay at 12° south, its latitude today.

Moroni today.

12° south. In 130 million years the plates have carried it some 3,400 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 35° south; 130 million years ago
Farthest south: 37° south; 120 million years ago
Distance travelled: 3,400 kilometres; 130 million years

other places

Dar es Salaam
Antananarivo
Dodoma
Lilongwe
Nairobi
Harare
Mogadishu
Victoria
Lusaka
Gitega

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.