Nusantara through 410 million years

Nusantara lay at 5° north, the latitude of Juba today.

Nusantara crosses the equator.

Heading south.

The first dinosaurs

Nusantara lay at 34° south, the latitude of Santiago today.

Farthest south.

Nusantara lay at 42° south.

The great extinction

Nusantara lay at 4° south, the latitude of Gitega today.

Nusantara crosses the equator.

Heading north.

Homo sapiens

Nusantara lay at 1° south, its latitude today.

Nusantara today.

1° south. In 410 million years the plates have carried it some 19,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 5° north; 410 million years ago
Farthest south: 42° south; 160 million years ago
Farthest north: 8° north; 400 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 360 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 50 million years ago
Crossed the equator: the present day
Distance travelled: 19,000 kilometres; 410 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.