Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Durban
Antipode finder · South Africa
The antipode of
Durban.
Draw a straight line from Durban (29.86° S, 31.03° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 29.86° N, 148.97° W, in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,230 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of the United States. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Durban
- 29.86° S, 31.03° E · at about sea level · 3,338,026 people
- Antipode
- 29.86° N, 148.97° W
- What is there
- The North Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,920 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,230 km from the antipode, on the coast of the United States
- Nearest town
- Hana, United States · 1,233 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Los Angeles · 2,925 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,231 km away, 75 km from Xumo, Botswana ⇄ near Hana, United States
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Durban?
No, not from Durban itself. The other slice would land in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,230 km from the nearest dry land (the United States), where the sea floor lies about 4,920 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,231 km from Durban, 75 km from Xumo, Botswana. Its other slice would go down 6 km from Hana, United States.
Durban is on the Hawaii ↔ Botswana corridor. Its guide lists where every city on both sides lands and how to make an Earth sandwich there.
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.