Qiqihar through 410 million years

Qiqihar lay at 46° north, the latitude of Zagreb today.

Farthest north.

Qiqihar lay at 70° north.

The first dinosaurs

Qiqihar lay at 55° north, the latitude of Copenhagen today.

The great extinction

Qiqihar lay at 51° north, the latitude of Astana today.

Homo sapiens

Qiqihar lay at 47° north, its latitude today.

Qiqihar today.

47° north. In 410 million years the plates have carried it some 23,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 46° north; 410 million years ago
Farthest south: 42° north; 250 million years ago
Farthest north: 70° north; 350 million years ago
Distance travelled: 23,000 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.