Feb 9, 2022
3 min read
The One Minute Geographer: This Fragile Earth (5) Antipodes
When I grew up kids used to talk about ‘digging a hole to China.’ I imagine that comes from China being in the Northern Hemisphere on the opposite side of the globe from the United States. Maybe kids still say that. (More on that at the end of this post.)
But a real ‘antipode’ is the point on the earth exactly opposite another point going through the center of…
