Antipode Visits

[Kybra]

Just wondering if anyone has managed to visit the Antipode site (opposite co-ordinates) of their home?

Mine is out in the Atlantic and I suppose a lot of peoples will be in the ocean but some will be over land.

[+Oakley1975]

what's the site?

[+Stunod]

Here is an antipodal map:

 

 

There aren't too many populated areas that have non-ocean antipodes. The best bets would be western South America and SE Asia.

Edited February 5, 2005 by Stunod

[+Team ARK-ville]

This sounds interesting, but I have no idea how to get the new coordinates. I searched a few antipod sites to try and figure it out but can't. If my home coords are: N42° 08.992 and W074° 37.144, what are the antipode coords??

[+hb'sbear04]

Is there some formula?

[+Team GPSaxophone]

This sounds interesting, but I have no idea how to get the new coordinates. I searched a few antipod sites to try and figure it out but can't. If my home coords are: N42° 08.992 and W074° 37.144, what are the antipode coords??

Pretty simple. Change N to S and subtract 180° from W (or add 180° to E)

You'd be at S42° 08.992 E106° 37.144

[+treasure_hunter]

If I were to visit my Antipode site I would have to go to Australia and then take a boat out into the ocean. I dont thing I will be doing that anytime soon.

[Kybra]

This sounds interesting, but I have no idea how to get the new coordinates. I searched a few antipod sites to try and figure it out but can't.  If my home coords are: N42° 08.992 and W074° 37.144, what are the antipode coords??

Pretty simple. Change N to S and subtract 180° from W (or add 180° to E)

You'd be at S42° 08.992 E106° 37.144

Hey thats only 880 NM SW of here we could be there and back in two weeks if you don't mind a sail in the Southern Ocean

[+hb'sbear04]

Okay, if I did it right, ours is in a VERY remote part of China... pulled it up on Mapquest... no roads for at least 5 miles... talk about bushwhacking our way in!

[+Marcie/Eric]

I'm off the southwestern tip of Australia. Southwest of Perth.

 

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Looking at the map above, maybe Africa is closer.

Edited April 28, 2005 by Marcie/Eric

[+erik88l-r]

I've never visited my antipode, but have had a cache posted there for about three years.

 

Obviously this predates the current prohibition on caches too far away to maintain.

 

~erik~

[+Cardinal Red]

Actually Sax's " Longitude Antipode solution is often used as an example when the starting point is in Integer Degrees. You actually have to determine what location is Exactly 180° Degrees away. And you must remember that the numbers are on opposite sides of a Zero Point. One of them is really a Negative Number. And yes, for Latitude just reverse the N and S.

 

E106° 37.144' and W74° 37.144' are 181° 14.288' apart. That an error of 1° 14.288'

 

It would be easier for most people to think of 74° 37.144' as 74.61907°

 

180 - 74.61907 = 105.38093 or 105° 22.856'

 

E105° 22.856' and W74° 37.144' are 180° apart.

 

So the Antipode of N42° 08.992' W074° 37.144' is S42° 08.992' E105° 22.856'

[+tozainamboku]

My mother always told me if I dug a hole in the backyard I would come out in China. Looks like thats true for kids in Argentina or Chile.

[+Yamahammer]

I'd have to go to the "Southern" part of the Indian Ocean to get to the Anti-Texas coordinates. I don't see that happenin'.