Nanning through 1 billion years

Nanning lay at 22° north, the latitude of Jeddah today.

Farthest north.

Nanning lay at 82° north.

Nanning crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The Cambrian explosion

Nanning lay at 13° south, the latitude of Apia today.

Life reaches land

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

Nanning crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Nanning crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Nanning crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Nanning crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Nanning lay at 31° north, the latitude of Alexandria today.

The great extinction

Nanning lay at 25° north, the latitude of Abu Dhabi today.

Homo sapiens

Nanning lay at 23° north, its latitude today.

Nanning today.

23° 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; 560 million years ago
Farthest north: 82° north; 800 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.