Do you know where you would be if you tried to dig a hole all the way to the other side of the world?
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I’d come out smack dab in the middle of the Indian ocean, as would many people in the central US. If, however, one lived on the big island of Hawaii you’d come out in northern Botswana.
The major islands of Hawaii, the North Slope of Alaska, and a small area at the northern border of Montana are the only parts of the USA with antipodes on dry land.
I’ve actually been at two pairs of exact antipodes. Places where roads I’ve traveled were matched exactly at an geometrically determinable point. One pair is Pekanbaru, Sumatra, Indonesia, and Quito Ecuador. The other is at Taipei, Taiwan, and the road into Paraguay’s Chaco near Asuncion.
My present antipodes are in the middle of Brazil, south of Manaus, where I have also been, but a few hundred miles apart. Closest matches in that area would be Zamboanga, Philippines and Mauaus, or Brunei and a spot between Manaus and Leticia, Colombia, where I’ve also been. I’ve been to Guam, which would be just offshore near Salvador, Brazil.
As far as I know, I’ve only ever been to two places that have antipodes on land: Beijing (Argentina) and Peru (Cambodia and Vietnam, depending on exactly where I was).
Hey, me too! Right now, though, if I dug straight through the Earth I’d come out hundreds of miles south/south east of Madagascar. So I’d drown pretty quickly.
About 3° S and 11° W of the SW corner of Australia, out in the Indian Ocean somewhere. (Or maybe the Southern Ocean. Not sure where one fades into the other.)