Sønderborg through 600 million years

Sønderborg lay at 34° south, the latitude of Buenos Aires today.

The Cambrian explosion

Sønderborg lay at 59° south.

Farthest south.

Sønderborg lay at 64° south.

Life reaches land

Sønderborg lay at 55° south.

Sønderborg crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Sønderborg lay at 32° north, the latitude of Nantong today.

The great extinction

Sønderborg lay at 44° north, the latitude of San Marino today.

Homo sapiens

Sønderborg lay at 55° north, its latitude today.

Sønderborg today.

55° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 35,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 34° south; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 64° south; 490 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 340 million years ago
Distance travelled: 35,000 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.