Tunnel to the Other Side of the Earth
Have you ever wondered which part of the other side of the earth is directly below you? Find out using this map tunnelling tool.
Map Tunnelling Tool
|Map 1||Map 2|
|Nearest Country :||Nearest Country :|
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 about's 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.
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.
- 21st September 2009 - Removed border around maps for better fit
- 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
Ideas and improvements that are due to be implemented in the future. If you think of any ways of improving this tunnelling 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
Previous Comments For This Page
It's quite amazing given the size of all the continents that they nearly all land masses are opposite water in the oceans. South east Asia & parts of South America are the exceptions. Peruvians, Argentinians & Chilean are the countries that would dig down and come out in China! As one person said it would be good to have the option to overlay antipodean points on the same map to see this.
By Andrew on 31/03/2013
Great site i ended up close to bora bora holiday islands
By Frederik on 21/03/2013
It is not about where we end up! It is about realising that someone else is also on the top of the world on the other antipodal end. I see the exact half of the sky what the other one sees at the other end! I pray to the sky, so does he or she at the other end. Let us merge the half skies into one and we get space. Let us worship the space around us and feel one!
By Shyam Devendran on 30/11/2012
I'm one of the lucky ones and will end up in Bermuda, but why leave Perth anyway!
I'm starting digging !
By coyoham on 03/11/2012
if you control the nuclear test sites with the antipodes map ... :)
and google Mark Boslough (NASA) for the results on 'antipode focussing' after asteroide impacts. The same amount of energy released as a schockwave towards the plasmatic core of earth will lead to a heat up of the magma in the antipode places, wich explains some of the factual increase of earthquakes and the northern poles fly-off ....
By Torsten P. Kersten on 19/10/2012
One map should be upside down.....
Is it possible to run the maps on top of each other as projections? Ie so I scroll over Spain and get an upside down projection of NZ on top of it?
By Paul on 15/10/2012
you should definitely change the image that comes up on facebook when posting this as a link. no one is going to click on a bucket, make it a map
Interesting. Heard Island does not sound fun.
By Rob on 13/10/2012
If you start dig on Paraguay you may find yourself near Taiwan...
I belive I found the smuggling tunel! >,<
By Kalav on 05/10/2012
I live in San Marcos Texas and If i dug a hole all the way through the other side of the world, my tunnel would collapse with the water from the Indian Ocean.
Strait line from Madrid is almost exactly to Wellington, New Zealand. From one capitol to another.
What about distances ? under the surface or above, I would like to know both :-)
Which are the biggest on equator or all approx.same ? :-)
By paplop on 20/09/2012
I ended up in the middle of The Indian ocean SW of Australia, what a bummer.
By Arkansas, usa on 18/08/2012
'removed boarder' - trying to get on a train? Think you mean 'border' lol!
By Graham on 12/08/2012
wow i love this website
By awesome on 09/08/2012
Warsaw, Poland. Water near New Zealand.
Almost everyone seems to end up tunneling to water.
By Rain on 08/07/2012
the antipode of manu national park, peru, is chu yangh singh national park in vietnam!
By finn on 19/06/2012
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