A new map has put to bed the idea that tunnelling straight down from the UK would lead you to Australia – sadly the real destination would be the Pacific Ocean.
The Antipodes Map enables users to enter any location on one map as their start point for a virtual dig, with a second map alongside showing where that dig would end up.
Unsurprisingly given its size, the Pacific Ocean is a common finishing point for many digs, as is water in general given the Earth’s make-up.
The map is free to use, and the site on which it sits is loaded with trivia on antipodes – two diametrically opposite points on the Earth’s surface.
Perhaps the most famous of these are the North and South Pole.
As for anyone digging from Parliament Square in central London, they would end up off the south east coast of New Zealand.
One of the few places to have a land-based antipode is Chile – with a dig from the country’s capital Santiago bringing users out west of Shanghai in China.
