Fun fact: There are actually two airports that are exactly antipodal. Parts of Tangier’s airport runway is exactly antipodal to the runway of Whangarei Airport

@alimbis

7 ай бұрын

how long would a flight take?

@haroeneissa790

7 ай бұрын

​@@alimbisyou would crash before you land because there are no passenger planes that can carry that much fuel for a direct flight.

@alimbis

7 ай бұрын

@@haroeneissa790 ok

@Taalul

7 ай бұрын

@@haroeneissa790ok but theoretically

@svennoren9047

7 ай бұрын

@@Taalul Let's calculate it! The circumference of the earth is 40 000 km, halfway is 20 000km. A Boeing 747 cruises at 907 km/h. 20 000 / 907 = 22h. Range for a 747-400 is up to 14 000 km, so a little over half that required. An Airbus A350 has a range of 16 100 km at a cruising speed of 903 km/h, so in the same ballpark (as are most other jetliners).

The closest antipode to Madagascar is Hawaii. This becomes more interesting when you realise that their native people both speak Austronesian languages. Those guys knew how to travel long distance by sea way before Europeans!

So that old myth saying if you dig a tunnel through the earth you'll get to China actually applies but only if you are from Chile or Argentina lol

@Siansonea

7 ай бұрын

Also, maybe dress in layers, because when you go through the liquid iron core of the Earth, it's going to be kind of hot.

@zegod2586

7 ай бұрын

Yeah but like if you were hypothetically invincible to the pain you would just let’s say jump down the hole but then you fall back when you get to the other side and you are stuck like that

@zegod2586

7 ай бұрын

like you would fall through and back the hole forever

@johnmartin1583

7 ай бұрын

@@zegod2586 fun fact if you dug a frictionless tunnel through the earth at any angle it takes the exact same amount of time to fall through it. If we could dig tunnels about a mile down we could make mag lev trains that travel an average of 650 mph without any power

@olegshevchenko5869

7 ай бұрын

I suppose technically you don't have to dig a hole straight through the center of the Earth, so you can dig a hole to China from any other place on Earth you like. It's just not gonna be as impressive as if you dig through the actual center of the planet.

You mentioned Mt Everest’s antipode is in the middle of the ocean. But did you know that, while not directly antipodal, the two points on the earth’s surface that are the farthest apart are the summit of Cayambe in Ecuador and Gunung Kerinci in Sumatra, Indonesia, when you account for the elevation of both mountains as well as the fact the earth is wider around the equator.

The Pacific Ocean is so large that it's antipodal to itself. You can see it at 1:00, south of China and west of Peru.

I wish people would learn the difference between ’Kilometres squared’ and ‘Square kilometres’. They’re entirely different things. 3 kilometres squared is 9 square kilometres. These details matter.

In a cabinet by my dining room table, I have a rock I can point to as coming from "the point directly underneath your feet on the opposite side of the world". I am from Auckland, NZ, and in 1996, prior to a tour of Europe by car, I had a friend attend that same table with the GPS unit from his yacht. Armed with those coordinates, when In Southern Spain, I drove to a spot in the mountains about 50 km almost due North of Gibraltar. From a roadside cutting as near as I could get without trespassing, I selected that rock.

@Ant.3499

7 ай бұрын

thats awesome

@flamencoprof

7 ай бұрын

@@Ant.3499 Thx. 22,384 km drive of a lifetime.

Even entire Australia is also not covering any land on opposite side but just the north Atlantic.

I live in South Brazil, in a town of 35,000. My antipode is a few hundred kilometers from the town of Amami, in Kagoshima, Japan, with a population of 44,000! It's cool how such almost antipodal places have such similar populations.

@darkbrightnorth

7 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@slohmann1572

7 ай бұрын

Apparently Cidreira, RS is antipode of Tokyo. So crazy to think that such a “meh” beach town is antipode to one of the biggest cities in the world.

@4thalt

7 ай бұрын

@@slohmann1572 Yeah! I've been near there (I went to Arroio do Sal a few months ago, pretty far away from Cidreira but still about equally antipodal), and it's weird how I may have been almost the furthest possible from this major city. I really like Japan, I want to visit someday so the fact that I was so far away at one point is so cool.

Fun Fact Taiwan (formerly Formosan Republic) is exact antipode of Formosa which is a region of Argentina. Geography is amazing

@rc4a0frios

6 ай бұрын

Formosa is aa province of Argentina, not a region.

1:03 I love how this image while showing the antipodes of everything also potrays how collosal the pacific is!

@napalm_lipbalm86

7 ай бұрын

It's literally half the size of the whole earth

@0:30 I love how you refer to the UK antipode off the coast of New Zealand as "the middle of absolute nowhere". I lived in NZ for several years and it isn't as small as it seems on a world map and there's tons of stuff to see and do. By comparison Australia is absolutely huge, but most of it is flat featureless plains with nobody there. Geographic features can sometimes be misleading.

@rhysbevan6767

7 ай бұрын

Been to NZ and its absolutely beautiful! (From England) Tbf though I think he just means if he landed in that bit of ocean, despite its relative proximity to NZ, it would seem like the middle of nowhere! Especially if he swam in any direction other than towards NZ 😅

@surfingseagull572

7 ай бұрын

yea because it was like 1000km south of NZ in the southern ocean. NZ's antipodal is in Spain and north Morocco

There was an "earth sandwich" challenge conducted by a radio show in the UK - to place two slices of bread on a pair of antipodes. It was completed successfully in Gibraltar and New Zealand - the pair of antipodes

@noodengr3three825

7 ай бұрын

You beat me to it. I love the Earth sandwich challenge

I love how casual this channel is. Not in a depreciating way, but in a cozy, friendly way. It really feels like we're in a room just chatting with a friend about our mutual curiosity about geography.

Jaen in Spain which has a population of around 112,757 is just short of being Antipodal to my home town Tauranga in New Zealand, population 158,300. Pretty crazy coincidence they are so close in population and Antipodal to each other.

4:04 Another two capitals that are close to each other's antipodes: Quito, Ecuador and Singapore.

The most interesting and relatable thing I find is the antipode correlation between meteorite impacts and their antipode volcanic systems.

Being from Detroit, Michigan in the US, my antipode is a very tiny town in Western Australia called Augusta. It's not the exact location, but it's the closest inhabited place to it. The actual location is in the Indian Ocean, like the rest of the US, except Alaska and Hawaii.

@thephoenix3155

3 ай бұрын

I live in the UK, and my antipodal city is Dunedin in New Zealand, even though it is not directly opposite, it is the closest I can get to the opposite point.

I was based in Ghanzi, northwest Botswana - antipode is Hawaii. Scrub and semi-desert vs tropical island - total opposites!

If you were watching the end of the Rio Olympics, they had a promo for the next Olympics in Tokyo. In it you saw Mario running down the streets of Tokyo, getting in a warp pipe and coming out in the stadium in Rio. That would work in real life because Rio and Tokyo are nearly antipodal. Making Rio and Tokyo the furthest host cities from each other, and they hosted concurrent Games!

@Decopunk1927

7 ай бұрын

Even better: it was the Prime Minister of Japan getting into that pipe. Also the word is consecutive, not concurrent.

The antipode of Venezuela is almost completely in the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali.

Awesome video!! 😊

Another fun fact - the city of Perth (western Australia) 🇦🇺 is pretty much a perfect antipode with Bermuda 🇧🇲

As a native of Long Island, New York, my antipode is in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia. The closest city to this location is Perth, which is actually closer to the antipode of Bermuda than LI proper.

Polar bears are antipodal to penguins, and the birds who migrate twice a year from one end of the planet to the other with the changing of the seasons are just podal.

Man I love this channel

The Pacific goes halfway round the earth from east to west and all the way from Alaska in the North to the southern most tip of South America so it's no wonder so many of land's antipodes end up there.

@napalm_lipbalm86

7 ай бұрын

I can't believe people do not realize this

The UK is southeast of NZ, not southwest.

Rottnest Island off the coast of Perth, Australia is near antipodal to Bermuda

This is a fun thing i noticed while using this site. The antipodes islands are antipodes to France

My antipode is about 4° north of the Kergulen Islands, which belong to France and Australia. They're part of the Kergulen Plateau, a large igneous province that tried to become a continent and didn't quite make it.

Im actually a new zealander and i always thought antipodes were so cool

Hi to the residents of my antipodal - Ponta Delgada and the Azores. A very interesting antipodal to me is the southernmost 2 to 3km of Peru is opposite China's southernmost point on Hainan Island, east of Sanya. This parcel of land is triangular with the Pacific Ocean and the Chilean border forming two sides for Peru, and the South China Sea forming the other border for China.

Fun fact: the antipode of the province of Formosa, Argentina is Taiwan, that was formerly named Formosa.

My mother's hometown (Guarda, Portugal) is antipode to Puponga in the South Island of New Zealand

The antipode of Haiphong, Vietnam on the far northwest shore of the Pacific, is Iquique, Chile on the far southeast shore of the same ocean

My antipode is the Chatham islands lol

Interesting that despite its massive size, Canada has almost no antipodal points on land, and none on populated land.

My antipode is in the middle of the Atlantic but close to the Azores islands

The nearest "antipode" to me is Canton Massachusetts, said to have been named in the erroneous belief it was antipodal to the eponymous region of China.

How about Quito, Ecuador and Singapore?

My antipode is somewhere in the Pacific, east of New Zealand.

What is the Antipode of the Chicxulub Impact site...and did anything happen there immediately after the impact?

@zach2382

7 ай бұрын

Looking at the map, it looks like it’s somewhere in the Indian Ocean what’s there at that spot in the Indian Ocean I have no idea

Facinating that the wettest spot is nearly antipole to the dryest spot.

very interesting

Have I been saying it wrong all these years? I always said "an-tee-poh-dees"

@flamencoprof

7 ай бұрын

An-*tippo*-dees for me here in NZ

New Zealand (New Zealand) ❤is a country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Wellington and its largest city is Auckland. They discovered New Zealand on December 13, 1642 [3] during a period of discovery, discovered by Abel Tasman, the Dutch traveler, on a voyage in the year 1641 AD. After that, he discovered the English James Cook and continued this successfully. One year after her

my antipode is at literally the ocean,but near to makurazaki city, japan

'Antipodes' has four syllables...An/TIP/uh/dees

@aubreyadams7884

7 ай бұрын

Yes, I found the narration a bit hard to listen to with “anti-pode”

It’s amazing how many opposites there are when playing with antipodes

3:23 yes

"Furtherest"? 😊

Mato Grosso in Brazil in the antipode of my city.

My antipode is somewhere in Brazil near Suriname

@slohmann1572

7 ай бұрын

Interesting. Very few people live there. From the airplane, all you see is the vastness of the Amazon forest. A green carpet everywhere your sight reaches, cut here and there by a random river.

My antipode is located in the Lu'an, China -

Fun fact: Although not exact, on the antipode of Mecca, Tematagi - one can pray in every direction and still face towards Mecca

Speaking of Taiwan, the portuguese named it Formosa. It's antipode is right north of the Argentine province of Formosa

So an antipode is that, and what about the point that is on the other side but on the same latitude?

@zach2382

7 ай бұрын

That would be the same thing

My city's antipode is near Medellin in Colombia 😅

Perth Australia and Bermuda Mecca and the French Pacific Atomic Testing site of Mururoa

I'm at the antipodes of Wellington

Here i have a cool fact I like: Taiwan was called back then "Formosa" by the Portuguese, the antipode of Taiwan is located half part of the zone of Argentina, especially in a province by the name of "Formosa"... a coincidence..?

@canuckguy0313

7 ай бұрын

It actually is a coincidence!

3:42 Which city is this?

@bbxdesign

Ай бұрын

@@greatpyramid4348 Well it's neither Christchurch, Lugo, Auckland, or Malaga. That's why I'm asking.

Greetings people in Xian from Santiago 🇨🇱

8 Continents of the World! Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Australia & Pasific and Squid Game

I don't quite understand the inversion. Like if you move 1500 km you're on the same side, but 15000 km you're inverted. Someone please explain.

@flamencoprof

7 ай бұрын

The Earth is a sphere, not a flat map.

Has anyone determined whether the Chicxulub and Shiva craters were antipodes at the time of their formation?

@zach2382

7 ай бұрын

They are not

"Let us know where your antipode is" Nice try fed

Botswana and Hawaii are another example.

Bahia Blanca and Salto are not even close to being cities with a population of 1 million. Uruguay has only ~3 million people and almost half of the population lives in Montevideo.

The Philippines has an antipode with Brazil and most of the antipode of the Philippines are found in three Brazilian states, Mato Grosso, Para and Rondonia Our City of Calamba has antipode with one indigenous reservation tribe, Paresi Indigenous Land in Mato Grosso State which is demarcated by FUNAI(National Indian Foundation) and the Brazilian Government

Very interesting information, another oddity is that Taiwan (Formosa called by the Portuguese) is the antipod of the Formosa province in Argentina🤓... I love your videos, Greetings from Chile (We pronounce it, ChilE, with the "e" as the first letter from the word "Elephant"🙂) Keep doing your amazing work!!

Jakarta, my antipode is in Colombia

Munich has an antipodes?

@zach2382

7 ай бұрын

All cities do

You forgot Phnom Penh / Lima

Taiwan is a country, buddy. Antipodal to Paraguay, its only diplomatic ally in South America

My antipode is southwest of Australia

@MaglikNeedsSomeSleep

7 ай бұрын

I live in Nova Scotia btw

I live in the UK so the closest piece of land to my antipode is the South Island of New Zealand.

Isnt it pronounced AN-TI-PODEE?

@flamencoprof

7 ай бұрын

An-tippo-dees for me here in NZ.

"Furtherest"?

I find it funny how Spain and New Zealand are antipodes and how part of Russia and Argentina are antipodes.

OK, nice - but what's the value add of it?

@zach2382

7 ай бұрын

Now you know something you didn’t know before or at less someone did and it entertained people

\an-TIH-puh-deez\ (BUT \AN-tee-pode\ is acceptable, even preferred, for the singular, oddly!) Also, \an-TIH-puh-dul\ , not -POH-dul

0:45 Where's Hawaii? Where are the territories?

@zach2382

7 ай бұрын

Hawaii is on the map It’s in Botswana

Within 3 hours!

Which city has the highest population of antipodal people

@slohmann1572

7 ай бұрын

I’d say Cidreira, Brazil. It’s the antipode of Tokyo. A very uninteresting beach town. It’s in a part o Brazil that’s not so warm, and the beach is basically a straight line for hundreds of kilometres. Not your typical tropical paradise.

POINT NEMO?

@zach2382

7 ай бұрын

Yes

Is it me, or is the volume low

@zach2382

7 ай бұрын

Yes it is you

The United States state of Hawaii is completely within Africa, btw.

I am moving to the Cuck Islands

I pity any one who is learning English watching these videos. They might start talking drivel such as this: 2:52 "cover a distance of 242 kilometers squared."

It's pronounced "an-TI-puh-deez", not "an-tee-POHdz".

@alimbis

7 ай бұрын

both are correct

Second comment, lol. I gotta try the map so that i can find the antipode of stockholm. (edit: ok wow sweden and new zealand are almost antipodes. one of my favourite countries and i've wanted to move there most of my life and it's the farthest away from me of any country. so let's dig a tunnel, lol)

@DevinHeida

7 ай бұрын

Sorry bro, 3rd comment

It's "An-ti-po-deez" not "antipodes"

When i travel i mail my niblings postcards to inspire them to travel. I made a point of mailing them cards from Perth Australia which is the closest land to my antipode in the Midwest of the USA.

Say ‘anti-pode’ again 😂 It’s ‘an-tip-oh-dees’…

New Zealand comes First!

All current maps are a lie

@zach2382

7 ай бұрын

They’re not a lie it’s just when you make a flat map you can’t accurately represent what the Earth actually looks like

First comment❤

Second 🤯🤯