Tel Aviv through 600 million years

Tel Aviv lay at 16° south, the latitude of Lusaka today.

The Cambrian explosion

Tel Aviv lay at 52° south.

Farthest south.

Tel Aviv lay at 69° south.

Life reaches land

Tel Aviv lay at 65° south.

The first dinosaurs

Tel Aviv lay at 4° south, the latitude of Kinshasa today.

Tel Aviv crosses the equator.

Heading south.

Tel Aviv crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The great extinction

Tel Aviv lay at 12° north, the latitude of Ouagadougou today.

Homo sapiens

Tel Aviv lay at 32° north, its latitude today.

Tel Aviv today.

32° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 29,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 16° south; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 69° south; 500 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 220 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 160 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 140 million years ago
Distance travelled: 29,000 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.