A new interactive map shows where you end up if digging straight down through the Earth
The Antipodes Map shows users where they need to start from in order to dig to Australia.
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.
