Digging Through Planet Earth? Here's Where You'd Appear

AntipodeMap.com shows your geographic 'opposite'
By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff
Posted May 12, 2012 3:35 PM CDT
Digging Through Planet Earth? Here's Where You'd Appear
In this image released by Warner Bros., Anita Briem, left, Brendan Fraser and Josh Hutcherson, right, are shown in a scene from "Journey to the Center of the Earth."   (AP Photo/Warner Bros.)

A journey through the center of the Earth would spit you out on the other side—but where? A Google Maps-based website aims to answer that question. AntipodeMap.com allows you to pick a location and automatically see the spot on the opposite side of the globe, Mashable reports. Most of the continental US, for example, is opposite the Indian Ocean. San Francisco's antipodal point: just southeast of Madagascar. Find out your own geographic antipode here. (Or check out something even weirder that Google Earth spotted—in the Gobi Desert.)

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