Abstract Eocambrian glacial deposits are restricted, in Australia, to a zone which is oriented approximately northwest and which crosses the continent. To the west and southwest, these beds were marginal to a land-mass. This distribution roughly coincides with that of the fossiliferous Cambrian. Lower Proterozoic banded iron formations and Archaean rocks occur in the western portion of Australia. When the Eocambrian glacial deposits, the Lower Proterozoic banded iron formations and the Archaean rocks are plotted on a globe with the continents reassembled according to Wegener's Pangaea, they form a grouping to which the occurrences of eastern Asia are exceptions. It is suggested that the different areas of eastern Asia fitted between Europe (north of the Alps) and Africa-India, during the Late Precambrian and Early Palaeozoic times.