Tunis through 600 million years

Tunis lay at 27° south, the latitude of Lobamba today.

The Cambrian explosion

Tunis lay at 63° south.

Life reaches land

Tunis lay at 86° south.

Tunis crosses the equator.

Heading north.

The first dinosaurs

Tunis lay at 9° north, the latitude of Freetown today.

The great extinction

Tunis lay at 22° north, the latitude of Jeddah today.

Homo sapiens

Tunis lay at 37° north, its latitude today.

Tunis today.

37° north. In 600 million years the plates have carried it some 31,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 27° south; 600 million years ago
Farthest south: 86° south; 470 million years ago
Crossed the equator: 260 million years ago
Distance travelled: 31,000 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.