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Lines mark links and orders the records assert. No path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
3005 BCE
Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated
Now · 2026site
Close ✕Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park
A Middle Cambrian deposit of about 508 million years old on Fossil Ridge between Wapta Mountain and Mount Field in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, and the most consequential fossil…
51.4, -116.5 · approximate · fossils c. 508 Ma; quarried from 1909
On the world
- A place in: Evolution of Life · 12 places
Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.
Connections
- instance of Konservat-Lagerstätte (exceptional preservation) — Burgess animals are preserved as flattened carbon films retaining gills, guts, eyes and limbs, which requires rapid burial and anoxic conditions.
865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.
The places on Earth
242
- area
- — A region, drawn as one. The centre is not a location.
- point
- — A surveyed position. The mark is where the thing is.
- soft
- — A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.
- waypoint
- — A stop on a route. A single point does not describe it.
In focus · 106
- Xi'an Stele (Jingjiao / 'Nestorian' Stele)
- Aksum
- Alexandria
- Birmingham
- Boston
- Bukhara
- Canberra
- Canton (historical) — modern Guangzhou
- Carthage
- Chang'an
- Chicago
- Constantinople
- Córdoba
- Dunhuang
- Havana
- Istanbul
- Liverpool
- London
- Malacca (Melaka)
- Manchester
- Manila
- Mecca (Makkah)
- Merv
- New Orleans
- New York City
- Paris
- Potosí
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rome
- Samarkand
- Seville
- Shanghai
- Tenochtitlan
- Vladivostok
- Gulf Stream
- Boston Marathon
- Etosha National Park
- Kruger National Park
- Acapulco
- Cherbourg — transatlantic roadstead
- New York — Chelsea Piers (Piers 54 and 59)
- Queenstown (Cobh) — Roche's Point anchorage
- Southampton — White Star Dock (Berth 44)
- Antarctica
- Assam
- Darjeeling
- The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
- The Pontic–Caspian steppe
- South Georgia
- Taiwan
- Yunnan
- The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
- Abu Simbel temples (Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae)
- Borobudur
- Bottaccione Gorge, Gubbio
- The Broad Street pump, Soho
- Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park
- Cape of Good Hope
- Challenger Deep
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chengjiang fossil site, Yunnan
- Chicxulub impact crater, Yucatán
- Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
- Congo Square, New Orleans
- Cromford Mill
- Drake Passage
- Dresser Formation, North Pole Dome, Pilbara
- Durham Cathedral
- Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax
- Fortune Head GSSP, Newfoundland
- Gare de l'Est, Paris
- Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
- Grytviken Whaling Station
- Hadrian's Wall
- Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
- Harland and Wolff shipyard, Queen's Island, Belfast
- Hattusa (Boğazkale)
- The Heart's Content cable station
- Home Insurance Building, Chicago
- The Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale
- Isua supracrustal belt, southwest Greenland
- Kilwa Kisiwani
- Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
- Machu Picchu
- Marathon and the Tumulus of the Athenians
- Mariana Trench
- Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
- Meishan GSSP, Changxing, Zhejiang
- Mogao Caves
- Notre-Dame de Paris
- Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, Nunavik
- The Pantheon, Rome
- Pont du Gard
- Basilica of Saint-Denis
- Siberian Traps large igneous province
- Simplon Tunnel
- Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul
- Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- Stonehenge
- Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
- Titanic wreck site
- Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae
- Turfan oasis
- The Valentia Island cable station
- White City Stadium
- Windsor Castle
Outside the current lens or window · 103
- The Luzon Strait
- The Red Sea cable corridor
- The Strait of Malacca
- Ahmedabad
- Berlin
- Brasília
- Curitiba
- Jakarta
- Lagos
- Manaus
- Marka (Merca), Somalia
- Marseille
- Medellín
- Moscow
- Nusantara
- Singapore
- Songdo
- Tokyo
- Xi'an
- Amboseli–Tsavo–Kilimanjaro dispersal corridor
- Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA)
- Berlin Marathon
- Chicago Marathon
- London Marathon
- New York City Marathon
- Tokyo Marathon
- AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
- Lagos Blue Line
- Metrocable Line K, Medellín
- Malagasy
- Australian Institute of Marine Science
- Arctic Council
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
- ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
- INPE (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais)
- IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
- World Health Organization
- Amboseli National Park
- Chobe National Park
- Hwange National Park
- Maasai Mara National Reserve
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Okavango Delta
- Serengeti National Park
- El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- ITER
- Joint European Torus (JET)
- National Ignition Facility
- Anatolia
- Arctic Ocean
- Cuba
- Labrador Sea
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area — Western Plains
- Northern Virginia data-centre corridor
- Weddell Sea
- Zambezi River
- Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
- Angkor
- Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman (delisted 2007)
- Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO)
- Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Bayan Obo mining district
- The Bornholmer Strasse crossing
- Burj Khalifa
- Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
- Checkpoint Charlie
- Chichen Itza
- Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
- Dresden Elbe Valley (delisted 2009)
- Ediacara Hills, Flinders Ranges
- Eko Atlantic
- Enewetak Atoll
- Francevillian Basin, Gabon
- Galápagos Islands
- Galapagos Rift
- Gemini North telescope, Maunakea
- Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
- Great Wall of China
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Kamioka Observatory, Mozumi mine
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
- Landing Zone 1, Cape Canaveral
- LIGO Hanford Observatory
- LIGO Livingston Observatory
- Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (delisted 2021)
- Bahia de Loreto National Park
- Makoko
- McMurdo Station
- Moss Landing battery storage complex
- Nevado Mismi
- Site of Palmyra
- Petra
- Philae temple complex (relocated to Agilkia Island)
- Taj Mahal
- Tempelhof Airport
- Timbuktu
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Paranal Observatory and the GRAVITY interferometer
- Vostok Station
- Waldschlösschen Bridge, Dresden
No dated records · 33
- Antioch on the Orontes
- Goa
- Jerusalem (Old City)
- Kashgar
- Lisbon
- Londinium
- Humboldt (Peru–Chile) Current
- Kuroshio
- Basque (Euskara)
- International Telecommunication Union
- The Fulda Gap
- Western Corridor and Grumeti Reserves
- Ogliastra and the Nuoro highlands, Sardinia
- Okinawa
- Southern Serengeti Short-Grass Plains
- Bhadla Solar Park
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Costa Rica Thermal Dome
- Denmark Strait Sill
- DSS-43, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
- Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
- John F. Kennedy Space Center
- Leptis Magna
- Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex
- Meeting of the Waters (Encontro das Aguas)
- Ostia Antica
- Pikialasorsuaq (the North Water Polynya)
- Point Conception
- Porthcurno cable station
- Raja Ampat
- Salar de Atacama
- Stegra green steel plant, Boden
- Yaroslavsky Station, Moscow
1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated
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