Observed arrival · 2026-11-02
Pangea Map, with Today’s Countries
An interactive map traces continental drift across 540 million years, lets visitors overlay modern countries, and offers free map downloads.
- For
- People exploring deep-time geography
- Worth noticing
- Its realistic color mode represents approximate climate belts by latitude, explicitly not elevation.
Field notes
The interface pairs a time slider with label, country, and globe controls, and includes a country picker that highlights a present-day border on the selected reconstruction. The page credits the underlying plate model to Merdith et al. (2021) via GPlates and lists CC BY 4.0; it also cautions that the realistic color mode approximates climate belts by latitude rather than showing elevation. An author and reviewer are named, with an update date of November 1, 2026.
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