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.
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.
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.
