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Shuggy:
We were chatting about who is furthest from Wyoming, and I remembered I have made an antipodes map. As you can see, only southern South America / South East Asia and New Zealand / parts of Spain, and a few other places (eg Pacific islands) really have antipodes, everything else is rather neatly opposed by ocean. So only people in Argentina and Chile could really "dig a hole through to China" - except that they couldn't, the molten core would gush out the hole.

(The closer you are to the antipodes of Wyoming, the further you are from Wyoming, so someone in Perth or Capetown is further from Wyoming than me.)

Shuggy:
New Zealanders probably know our antipodes better than other places, first of course because we have some, but also because there used to be a map in the school atlases showing just New Zealand overlaid with an upside down Spain.

Lynne:
Hey Shuggy!

Thanks for the antipodes visual - I'm sometimes spatially challenged, so this helps a lot!  :)

Lynne

Shuggy:
I've now made a version for T-shirts, etc. and they're at http://www.cafepress.com/ahua/2090491.
But someone's posted one ex Wikipedia which is transparent, and that's so much better. Damn, I'll have to redo it.

David In Indy:
So apparently the antipode for Indiana is the Pacific ocean.

It's a good thing I never tried to dig that hole to China when I was a kid.... I would have drowned.  ;)

Thanks for posting this Shuggy! It's really interesting.  :)

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