Table 1

Finite rotations of Australia relative to a fixed Antarctic plate

An.       Age (Ma)            Lat. (deg. S)  Lon. (deg. W)  Angle

6y        19.048              13.449         145.339        11.48
5ad       14.395              11.2129        142.7252       8.77
5o        10.949              11.4937        141.5066       6.81
4         7.752               14.5478        141.6163       5.02
3ay*      5.894               12.6122        139.2836       3.84
3y        4.235               14.4472        140.5404       2.73
2ay       2.581               16.2062        141.3136       1.67

Counterclockwise rotations are positive.  Ages are from Cande and Kent [1995].  An. = magnetic
anomaly. * indicates a chron for which a finite rotation was determined but which was so close in
time to subsequent and preceding chrons that we do not show the corresponding reconstructions.