Prague through 600 million years

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

The Cambrian explosion

Prague lay at 42° south, the latitude of Wellington today.

Life reaches land

Prague lay at 65° south.

Farthest south.

Prague lay at 67° south.

Prague crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Prague lay at 30° north, the latitude of Cairo today.

The great extinction

Prague lay at 39° north, the latitude of Langfang today.

Homo sapiens

Prague lay at 50° north, its latitude today.

Prague today.

50° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 32,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 12° south; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 67° south; 450 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 330 million years ago
Distance travelled: 32,000 kilometres; 600 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.