Tirana through 330 million years

Tirana lay at 19° south, the latitude of Antananarivo today.

Tirana crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Tirana lay at 10° north, the latitude of Caracas today.

The great extinction

Tirana lay at 25° north, the latitude of Nassau today.

Homo sapiens

Tirana lay at 41° north, its latitude today.

Tirana today.

41° north. In 330 million years the plates have carried it some 10,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 19° south; 330 million years ago
Farthest south: 19° south; 330 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 260 million years ago
Distance travelled: 10,000 kilometres; 330 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.