Podgorica through 310 million years

Podgorica lay at 12° south, the latitude of Moroni today.

Podgorica crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Podgorica lay at 10° north, the latitude of Conakry today.

The great extinction

Podgorica lay at 26° north, the latitude of Chenzhou today.

Homo sapiens

Podgorica lay at 42° north, its latitude today.

Podgorica today.

42° north. In 310 million years the plates have carried it some 9,500 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 12° south; 310 million years ago
Farthest south: 12° south; 310 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 260 million years ago
Distance travelled: 9,500 kilometres; 310 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.