# Where is the opposite side of the world for you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 28, 2018, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255 "2018-04-28T04:56:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255/21 "2018-04-29T13:32:42Z")
Closest antipodean land to me is the Keurgulen Islands. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255/22 "2018-04-29T13:47:42Z")
The vast majority of people in the world live exactly opposite part of an ocean. Take a look at this map. The only significant cases where two pieces of land are exactly opposite each other are Argentina and Chile being opposite China and New Zealand being opposite Spain: > **[Who is on the opposite side of the earth to you? Probably nobody - Idea to Value](https://www.ideatovalue.com/curi/nickskillicorn/2016/08/opposite-side-earth-probably-nobody/)** > > Have you ever wondered who exactly is standing on the opposite side of the world to you? The answer is probably no one. When I was young there was a story that if you dug a hole deep enough for you to come out on the other side of the Earth and that... ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255/23 "2018-04-29T13:52:22Z")
The Indian Ocean, well southwest of Australia, in the Roaring Forties. Not the most welcoming place on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255/24 "2018-04-29T15:05:03Z")
I came relatively close to comeing up at [Port-au-Français, Kerguelen Islands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-aux-Fran%C3%A7ais), in the South Indian Ocean. Turns out there are two points in Saskatchewan which have an antipode on an island: the area around the village of [Consul](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul,_Saskatchewan), which pops up at Port-au-Francais, and [Parkside](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkside,_Saskatchewan), which has [Heard Island](Heard Island and McDonald Islands) in the South Indian Ocean as its antipode. Other than that, look like the only antipodes in Canada are the Arctic Archipelago. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255/25 "2018-04-29T15:14:48Z")
About 400 miles west-southwest of the southwestern corner of Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255/26 "2018-04-29T15:28:07Z")
There are some places in Alaska that have antipodes in Antarctica. Can’t really find any inhabited ones though except at or very near the far north coast. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255/27 "2018-04-29T15:50:47Z")
Off the coast of Peru, relatively speaking not too far from Uruguay my home country. Checking the map I noticed something interesting, Uruguay falls almost completely inside the Yellow Sea on the other side, except for two very small areas, Shanghai in China and Jeju island in Korea, and I’ve been to both. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255/28 "2018-04-29T16:09:12Z")
Indian ocean, well SW of Australia around the same latitude as Tasmania, but probably a couple thousand miles east. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255/29 "2018-04-29T16:21:55Z")
> [@Mr\_Zox](#): > > 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. There’s a couple others. Two small islands in the Indian Ocean are opposite southeastern Colorado. We had a thread on this a few years ago. As far as anyone could tell, Australia was the largest country that was completely antipodal to water. But it was close to some land. The Azores are antipodal to the Bass Strait and Bermuda is opposite the ocean about 30 km off Perth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-opposite-side-of-the-world-for-you/813255.md?page=1)