For Your Geographers: Antipode Maps

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Link 1: Antipode Map

 

Link 2: What's on the other side of the Earth?

Edited July 23, 2017 by 6Foot2
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Link: Antipodes Map - Tunnel to the other side of the world

 

...The antipodes of any place on the Earth is the point on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points that are antipodal to each other are connected by a straight line running through the centre of the Earth. An antipodal point it is often called an antipode (Wikipedia).

 

The Most of Europeans and Americans believe that if you dig a hole, in a straight line through the center of the Earth, you would come out on the other side right in China. But this is just a saying, because, in reality, if you dig a straight tunnel, in most areas, of Europe or United States you will come out in the ocean. The only places where a straight hole will emerge in China ar parts in Argentina and Chile...