Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Brisbane
Antipode finder · Australia
The antipode of
Brisbane.
Draw a straight line from Brisbane (27.47° S, 153.03° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 27.47° N, 26.97° W, in the North Atlantic Ocean, 869 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Spain. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Brisbane
- 27.47° S, 153.03° E · about 40 m above sea level · 2,780,063 people
- Antipode
- 27.47° N, 26.97° W
- What is there
- The North Atlantic Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,000 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 869 km from the antipode, on the coast of Spain
- Nearest town
- Frontera, Spain · 884 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Nouakchott · 1,534 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,360 km away, near Poum, New Caledonia ⇄ 112 km from Boulenouar, Mauritania
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Brisbane?
No, not from Brisbane itself. The other slice would land in the North Atlantic Ocean, 869 km from the nearest dry land (Spain), where the sea floor lies about 5,000 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,360 km from Brisbane, 18 km from Poum, New Caledonia. Its other slice would go down 112 km from Boulenouar, Mauritania.
How this was worked out: the antipode flips the latitude and moves the longitude by 180°. Land or sea comes from the OpenStreetMap coastline the map uses; the sandwich verdict and elevations come from the verifier's 0.2° grid (Natural Earth land, ETOPO 2022 relief); water names from Natural Earth; towns and populations from GeoNames. The city's position is GeoNames' point for it; a big city's suburbs spread tens of kilometres around that point, and the figures move with them. Generated 2026-09-29.