Sarajevo through 310 million years

Sarajevo lay at 11° south, the latitude of Moroni today.

Sarajevo crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Sarajevo lay at 11° north, the latitude of Port of Spain today.

The great extinction

Sarajevo lay at 27° north, the latitude of Thimphu today.

Homo sapiens

Sarajevo lay at 44° north, its latitude today.

Sarajevo today.

44° north. In 310 million years the plates have carried it some 9,900 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 11° south; 310 million years ago
Farthest south: 11° south; 310 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 260 million years ago
Distance travelled: 9,900 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.