Victoria through 300 million years

Victoria lay at 53° south.

The first dinosaurs

Victoria lay at 32° south.

The great extinction

Victoria lay at 24° south, the latitude of Gaborone today.

Homo sapiens

Victoria lay at 5° south, its latitude today.

Victoria today.

5° south. In 300 million years the plates have carried it some 10,000 kilometres.

latitude through time

Oldest position in the model: 53° south; 300 million years ago
Farthest south: 53° south; 300 million years ago
Distance travelled: 10,000 kilometres; 300 million years

other places

Mogadishu
Moroni
Dar es Salaam
Antananarivo
Nairobi
Dodoma
Aden
Djibouti
Addis Ababa
Sanaa

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.