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Map & globe

A draggable globe with speakable pins — or a time machine: watch the continents move from Pangaea to today.

Live

Use it right here

This is the real component, not a picture of one.

Drag the slider — or press play — and watch the continents drift over 540 million years.

200 million years ago

Reconstruction: GPlates Web Service (Merdith et al. 2021) · CC BY

▶ Which continents look like they once fit together?

Like every block: type it by hand, extract it from a PDF, or let the composer draft it — and every word of it speaks in the voice you choose.