Palikir through 160 million years

Palikir lay at 22° south, the latitude of Windhoek today.

The great extinction

Palikir lay at 1° south, the latitude of Nairobi today.

Homo sapiens

Palikir lay at 7° north, its latitude today.

Palikir today.

7° north. In 160 million years the plates have carried it some 12,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 22° south; 160 million years ago
Farthest south: 27° south; 130 million years ago
Farthest north: 9° north; 10 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 60 million years ago
Distance travelled: 12,000 kilometres; 160 million years

other places

Yaren District
Majuro
South Tarawa
Tokyo
Dili
Apia
Busan
Taipei
Taichung
Taizhou

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.