Unless you're an astronaut and watching
this video, then you're watching this
video somewhere on the planet Earth and
that means that you may have had this
thought go through your head before of
where is the farthest possible place
away from you right now. In other words
how far away could you possibly get from
where you are right now before you would
start getting closer again, and how could
you possibly get to this location if you
left right now? The short answer is that
the farthest possible place away from
you is whatever is on the opposite end
of the world from you around 20,000
kilometers across the Earth's surface. If
you somehow dug a tunnel straight down
to the other side of the world from
where you are right now and emerged out
on the other side, you would be
geographically speaking the farthest
away you could possibly be from where
you originated from such a place is
called an antipode and would be almost
as different as where you are now in
other ways as well the time difference
would be exactly 12 hours meaning that
whenever it's noon where you are now
it's midnight at this opposite point
the seasons would also be exact opposite
meaning that if it was in the middle of
summer where you're at now it would be
the middle of winter at the opposite
point but where would you actually end
up if you were to do this there's a
misconception in the united states that
if you dug a hole straight down then you
would eventually end up in china but
this isn't the case at all in fact
nearly the entire united states is
directly opposite to the Indian Ocean
meaning that the farthest away point
where most Americans is the middle of
the ocean there are a few exceptions to
this rule however since all of Hawaii is
directly opposite of botswana and
Namibia in Africa and a large part of
Northern Alaska is opposite of
Antarctica there are also two small
patches of land in the state of Colorado
that are opposite to two small French
islands of ill Amsterdam and ill st.
Paul and another small patch of land in
the state of Montana that is opposite to
the remote Kerguelen Islands the small
town of Rudyard in Montana is the only
community in the contiguous 48 US states
that is opposite of actual land with the
rest being totally opposite of ocean the
same can also be said for Canada since
most of the country is also opposite to
the Indian Ocean there are some parts of
Saskatchewan near Montana that are
opposite to the Kerguelen Islands while
a small part of central desk Quechuan
and Alberta are offset of the McDonald
islands and heard
Island that are a part of Australia
besides these places a very large
portion of northern Canada and the
Canadian archipelago is opposite of
Antarctica but other than that to the
rest of Canada is opposite of the Indian
Ocean the rest of North America is also
entirely opposite to the Indian Ocean
while most of the continent of Europe is
entirely opposite to the Southern
Pacific Ocean a notable exception to
this is Spain and Portugal who share a
significant amount of area that is
opposite of New Zealand so for Spaniards
and Portuguese on one side and New
Zealanders on the other they are as
geographically separated from one
another as you can possibly be the
cities of Madrid and Auckland are almost
opposite of each other being about as
far away as cities can possibly get from
one another New Zealand is also directly
offset to the UK territory of Gibraltar
and small parts of Morocco while nearly
the rest of Europe is directly opposite
of points across the Pacific Ocean
nearly all of Africa is also opposite at
the Pacific Ocean with only a few
notable exceptions being the
aforementioned Hawaii and several other
small pacific islands scattered around
the continent . The pacific ocean itself
is so mind-bogglingly huge that there
are parts of it off the coast of peru
that are exactly opposite of other parts
of the same ocean off the coast of
South-east Asia that means that if you
were in Peru and wanted to cross the
Pacific ocean in a straight line it
would actually be a shorter distance if
you traveled in the opposite direction
in a straight line to get to the other
side of the ocean in addition point Nemo
in the Pacific Ocean which is the
farthest away point on earth from any
other humans is exactly opposite of
another extremely remote place in the
desert of western kazakhstan so if you
teleported from either end to the other
you would be in for a pretty lonely time
Australia is the largest land mass in
the world whose opposite points are
located entirely in an ocean the North
Atlantic but the island of Borneo in
Indonesia is the largest landmass to
have opposite points entirely on land
inside the A
mazon basin in South America
between Brazil Colombia and Venezuela in
fact this entire area known as the Malay
Archipelago is one of the largest places
to have most of their opposite points on
land they're mostly located in South
America so the Philippines is entirely
opposite of this area Malaysia and
Singapore are entirely opposite of this
area while huge
Indonesia are also opposite of another
nearby South American area the other
largest two places on lands that are
directly opposite of each other is this
other region of South America taking up
almost all of Chile and Argentina and
this huge area of eastern China and
Mongolia this means that the cities of
Taipei and Taiwan and ascension and
Paraguay are almost exact opposites as
well as Santiago and see on and point
Osiris and Beijing so what's the best
way of traveling from where you are now
to your furthest away place remember
when I said that the distance between
any of these two points across Earth's
surface will be 20,000 kilometers well
right now there isn't a single
commercial jet that could travel that
distance at a full load on a single
flight the closest thing that you could
take would be the Boeing triple7 200 lr
which has the record distance possible
of a commercial jet at 17,000 395
kilometers but that's still several
thousand kilometres short of the
distance between any two furthest away
points you would need at least two
flights to get between any of these
points but even then there's no regular
air travel that goes directly from one
faraway point to another the closest to
reality trip between any two opposite
points on the globe would be a flight
from Tangier even Battuta airport in
Morocco to Thunder a aerodrome in New
Zealand the two airports are exactly
20,000 kilometers apart from each other
and parts of their actual runways are
exact opposite points from one another
besides the problem of no commercial jet
being able to make the trip in a single
flight however the other problem is that
the runway in the New Zealand Airport is
too short for any current commercial jet
to land on meaning that even if you took
two flights you wouldn't be able to land
once you arrived at the airport in new
zealand the best way to get from one
point to another would take a lot of
planning but it's still fun to think
about how to get to the farthest away
point from wherever you're watching this
video from now the entire world map of
opposite points looks like this for you
to search yourself with the intersection
of land masses highlighted in green no
matter where you live on this map it's
strange to think about what's going on
right now far beneath your feet on the
other side of the world maybe somebody
else is also there wondering the exact
same thing right now about the place
that you're currently in so perhaps the
only way to know for sure is for you to
actually make the farthest
possible journey a way that you can ever
make well the farthest away trip until
commercial space flights becomes a
reality but until then whatever point on
earth off so did you is the farthest
away from home that you'll ever be in
your entire life so thank you very much
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