Tunnel to the Other Side of the Earth
Have you every wondered which part of the other side of the earth is directly below you? Find out using this map tunneling tool.
Map Tunnelling Tool
| Map 1 | Map 2 |
| Nearest Country : | Nearest Country : |
Options
[Map Height : Small - Medium - Large]
Unlink Zoom between Map 1 and Map 2
How to use the Map Tunnelling Tool
Drag map 1 or 2 by clicking and holding the map as you move it. When you let go and finish dragging the map the other map will then show you where abouts on the earth the far end of the imaginary tunnel will be. In effect it will show you what is at the other side of the earth.
To make things easier, you can also zoom the map in and out.
You can adjust the height of the map by using the small, medium and large buttons.
You can also change the map view using the Map, Satellite and Hybrid buttons. This works independently for each map.
About
This is a Antipodes Map. An antipode of a point on the earth is the region on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to that point. The two points which are antipodal to one another are considered to be connected by a straight line or tunnel through the centre of the Earth.
Version History
- 14th January 2009 - Added Unlink Zoom option
- 22nd October 2008 - Added dual control so both maps can be the "driver" and the "passenger". The nearest country also now displays for both maps
- 22nd July 2008 - Latitude and longitude for the centre of each map is now shown. Nearest Country displayed.
- 29th November 2007 - Crosshairs added to each map
- 20th September 2007 - Map 2 now starts in the correct place instead of the same location as map 1 until map 1 is moved
- 16th September 2007 - Page Created
Future Developments
Ideas and improvements that are due to be implemented in the future. If you think of any ways of improving this tunneling tool or spot any bugs, then please get in touch.
- Measure distance between the two points in question to discover the length of the tunnel (request by Baker)
- KML download for each of the two points for use in Google Earth
Relevant Links
What would happen if I drilled a tunnel through the centre of the Earth and jumped into it?
Latitude and longitude converter and antipodal calculator
Previous Comments For This Page
drop a pebble? why not amusement park ride?
Reminds of wondering about effects of artificial channels, eg, panama canal (Atlantic/Caribbean shore life meets Pacific life).
By tunnel troll on 06/06/2009
nice tool
By jesse on 03/05/2009
Can you please build an "flip over the equator" version, and a "flip across the dateline version"? This would help us land on dry land after tunneling.
By Monica on 29/04/2009
does anybody know the nearest island or nameplace antipode of c.london
By darren on 08/03/2009
Cape Town's opposite ends up in the North Pacific, west of USA and Canada's border..
By Nilo on 04/03/2009
Heyo.
Here in Dublin.
Ending up in the ocean way south of New Zealand.
By eshbcdrs on 01/03/2009
Hmmm, looks like Beijing and Buenos Aires are the closest major cities.
On 14/02/2009
So for most of the US, Perth is as far away as you can get on a regularly schedule airline. As Perth is such a nice place, it is too bad it takes so long to get there. If from Perth, that's probably a good thing.
On 09/02/2009
There is an island-group south of New Zealand called Antipodes Islands, originally thought to be "under" London. I've checked and I think you would end up from there in Cherbourg, North France. If I was to dig from my home in Solihull, England, I would have to swim about 200 nautical miles due North to reach land.
By Peter Hillman on 31/12/2008
CANT FREEKIN FIND 42 WAllOBY WAY SYDNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By ticked off on 22/12/2008
Looks like I am one of the few who would strike land. I am in Christchurch, New Zealand and my tunnel emerges about 5 miles inland from the north coast of Spain near a town called Foz.
By Antipodean Rob on 30/11/2008
(Comment from an American)
My dad had to go to china for business a while back, and he said that once everyone had had a few drinks, he asked some Chinese people if, as children, they are told that a through-the-earth tunnel would pop them out in America --- NONE of them had ever heard of it.
By Sam on 13/11/2008
All of Australia manages to fit into the North Atlantic. Our temps down here are mild though compared to the northern hemisphere equivalents.
By Nathan in Sydney on 27/10/2008
Southern California deserts, USA, peeks through to the middle of the Indian Ocean. Makes me seasick; where's the Dramamine?
By Cactus Charlie on 23/10/2008
Hello world from Jean Dulaney, Oxford, FL
By Fanfaron on 04/10/2008
Distance through the earths crust
By Jim on 18/09/2008
Don't fancy it as I can't swim.
By Ann from Ireland on 11/09/2008
From Merimbula, NSW, Australia, we would end up drinking a large amount of salt water from somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic. Cool, great tool, fabulous fun
By Vanessa on 10/09/2008
From New York, it's possible you'd end up on the island from Lost
By Dom on 10/09/2008
The "Nearest Country" is undefined IF the point on "Map 2" is in the water.
1> Try this point " 50.035973672195496,-110.654296875 " (Medicine Hat, Canada) and you come up NEAR "French Southern and Antartic Lands" but instead it says "Nearest Country : undefined"...
2> Move slightly so that the "French Southern and Antartic Lands" ARE actually under the crosshair on "Map 2" and it changes from "underfined" to the correct name.
3> This might be a fault in the API and not your coding (I don't know the API that well).
Thanks for the FREE website, it works fairly well.
On 08/09/2008
Need to be able to 'grab' "Map 2" to do "reverse-lookup refinement".
On 08/09/2008
Thank you for this site! Just about a week ago a friend of mine and I were saying "haven't you always wondered...?" so I googled "exactly the opposite on the other side of the world" and low and behold your site popped up! Hooray! Thanks!
P.S. A shout out to the rest of the world from Oxford, Florida, USA!!
By Jean Dulaney on 08/08/2008
Shanghai China!
By mauro on 05/08/2008
There is a country called Israel on the map.
By Free Map Tools on 01/08/2008
Isn't there a country called Israel - not on your map, there isn't
On 31/07/2008
If i dig from western most part of Russia, I still come out on a longitude that passes though Russia, though Antipode would be down south near New Zealand. Thats how big Russia is.
By Vineet on 30/07/2008
if I tunneled through the earth the indian ocean would flood my hole!! :)
By chris on 29/07/2008
the pacific ocean ...wow!!!
On 28/07/2008
This is sooooooo cool -- brings a whole new meaning to "digging to China"
On 24/07/2008
Good Grief! I wound up in the South Atlantic off the East coast of Uruguay. Exccellent tool. Loads of fun, and educational too. Thanks.
By Tourguide on 23/07/2008
My house is just west of Mangawhai Road on New Zealand's north island, near Te Arai Point :)
By Andy Blackburn on 21/07/2008
Brilliant. I was feeling a li'l homesick the last few days. Just wondered if I could tunnel through and reach home. But alas.. I ended up in the middle of the ocean.
By Pozhan on 20/07/2008
Ze Frank had thought about this when devising his Earth Sandwich challenge:
http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/
By RichM on 20/07/2008
Yay! Halfway Between Salamanca and Valladolid and just outside Madrid. My ancestors apparently come from Spain so that's interesting
On 19/07/2008
i tawt i taw a chinese puddy tat.
isn't digging in california will take you to china?
On 19/07/2008
That's South Pacific Ocean near Chile. Way to go!
By June on 16/07/2008
i love it!!!!!!!!! im a little way off of New Zealand! I reckon i could make it!
By Soph on 16/07/2008
The center of the Indian Ocean! I like it.
By LucyS. on 13/07/2008
This blows that old Hopi notion out of the water(no pun intended) that Tibet is exactly on the opposite side of the world. . .
By now skeptical on 13/07/2008
Here in Europe, only parts of Spain and Portugal have some dry antipodes :-(
Only water digging from Germany...
By Mathias on 13/07/2008
How disappointing. As a child I imagined it was the middle of Europe - only to find it is the middle of the Nth Altantic Ocean.
On 13/07/2008
Cool tool but the other side just ocean :P
By Duck on 11/07/2008
Well,I came up in the Pacific Ocean,right in between New Zealand and South America(from Cyprus)Should I now fill the hole in before we get flooded ?
Question- if a tunnel was made right through the Earth and I dropped a pebble in it,would it stop in the middle and just float ?
By SimonSkyman on 08/07/2008
I heard about a media artist who was using a tool like this to create "earth sandwiches." You contact someone in the country on the other side of the earth and both of you put a slice of bread on the ground to create an earth sandwich.
On 08/07/2008
just superb.it is really helpfull.
By vairavan alagappa on 06/07/2008
Help I'm drowning in the Indian Ocean (west of Perth).
By NW Ohio on 05/07/2008
A really neat tool; a good way to get a sense of geography.
By Peter on 04/07/2008
Baker:
7,926.41 miles (12,756.32 kilometers).
Google is (usually) our friend. :)
By Billy on 04/07/2008
So many places I checked are opposite to ocean. Although we are taught that a large proportion of our "Earth" (should that be "Water") is covered in water, this tool really brings this home and gives a sense of how much ocean there is. There is an old saying about digging all the way to China. Now I know that the only people who can dig straight down live in South America, the rest of us will have to adjust our direction. This is great fun and instruction - it should be made widely available, especially to school children. Thank you.
On 04/07/2008
From Manila, it's Brazil when I tunnel to the other end.
By Jim on 04/07/2008
How amazing this is what I used to think about when I was tunnelling at the beach or in my sandpit when I was young.
By crunchiejen on 04/07/2008
hahaha im just below New Zealand!!! im from Plymouth, England by the way
By goldinho on 04/07/2008
under mine just ocean :D
By che on 03/07/2008
Yeah... I'm closest to antarctica than anything else. Directly South of Africa. Oh, I'm from the biggest state.
By M@ on 03/07/2008
And I always thought I'd end up in China. Duh... Florida is in the same hemisphere!
By Chas Laser on 02/07/2008
I'm smack dab in the middle of the Indian ocean between Madagascar and Australia. WAHOO! More useless info!
On 02/07/2008
Haha, this is an awesome tool. :)
By Josh Sommers on 01/07/2008
fantastic, the middle of the Atlantic Ocean..from East coast Australia.
By nikko on 01/07/2008
Beware the the world is in fact not a perfect sphere, then center rotates faster then the poles causing a bulge near the equator
By Matt on 01/07/2008
NEWS FLASH! BOTSWANA INVADES HAWAII!
A large sinkhole was spotted off of HighWay 11. Hawaii unprepared again!
On 01/07/2008
"Oooo... how nice... I appear about 100-200 miles off the SouthWestern coast of Australia! Too bad I cant swim -.-' "
Same. 100-200 SW of Australia, can't swim. D:
By Blastedt on 01/07/2008
Two capitals, farthest apart? Bogota and Djakarta?
By Eggert on 01/07/2008
Oooo... how nice... I appear about 100-200 miles off the SouthWestern coast of Australia! Too bad I cant swim -.-'
By Amber on 01/07/2008
It's not just Montana, Hawaii is opposite to Botswana.
I grew up being told that we (Norway) are opposite New Zealand, but that's Spain. All of the rest of Europe oppose a lot of cold water, except Spitsbergen and Novaya Zemlya (both opposite Antarctica).
On 30/06/2008
42 minute travel time through the tubes to the other side... no matter what city to what city... no matter the angle.
newtons theory proves correct
On 29/06/2008
WMP: You can add Alaska and Hawaii to your list of states that have land opposite them amd US Territory American Samoa.
On 29/06/2008
through a little bit of trial and error, I have discovered the only place in America that has land on the other side of the earth is Montana.
On 27/06/2008
I find it quite interesting that with the exception of the poles and parts of South America and Southern Asia that the opposite side of the inhabitable land masses is ocean.
By WMP on 26/06/2008
7,989 miles to tunnel directly thru Baker,
By ManlyJack on 26/06/2008
You know, it might be interesting to see the terrain at the antipode as a light overlay.
On 25/06/2008
guess you can't dig a hole to china
On 25/06/2008
nice tool
By Jon on 22/05/2008
I'd like to seem greater detail, such as being able to find a particular city on the map
On 13/05/2008
What a fascinating concept! Having just waved goodbye to my son who has departed for New Zealand, I found out we're only about 700 miles off a direct tunnel route through the Earth! Many thanks... I shall have hours of enjoyment from finding other 'direct routes'!
By Susie on 16/04/2008
Cool Map Tool!
On 02/11/2007
I would like to know how far it would be to tunnel directly through the earth to the exact opposite side.
By Baker on 29/09/2007
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