antipode

Example Sentences

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I sometimes sign my emails to National Geographic editors, “Yours from the antipodes,” because that’s how it feels to be so distant from the centers of American and European influence.

From National Geographic

As one Columbia University sociologist who travelled to the antipodes to study “the social experiment of Australia” remarked, the world’s newest nation “has worked out a unique and interesting experiment in democracy”.

From The Guardian

Maccone’s preferred approach to preserving the far side’s sanctity would be a so-called protected antipode circle, or PAC, a circular piece of terrain measuring roughly 1,820 kilometers in diameter in that hemisphere.

From Scientific American

Its Caloris Basin, a 950-mile-long impact crater, lies on the exact opposite side of the world, or antipode, to a geologic pandemonium of shattered rock and maddeningly undulating topography.

From Scientific American

The scientific name for points opposite each other on the Earth's surface is antipodes - a term sometimes used to describe New Zealand, as it is roughly opposite the UK.

From BBC