Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Gqeberha
Antipode finder · South Africa
The antipode of
Gqeberha.
Draw a straight line from Gqeberha (33.96° S, 25.61° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 33.96° N, 154.39° W, in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,393 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of the United States. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Gqeberha
- 33.96° S, 25.61° E · at about sea level · 1,050,078 people
- Antipode
- 33.96° N, 154.39° W
- What is there
- The North Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 5,640 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,393 km from the antipode, on the coast of the United States
- Nearest town
- Kīlauea, United States · 1,396 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Los Angeles · 3,314 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,395 km away, 59 km from Charles Hill, Botswana ⇄ near Anahola, United States
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Gqeberha?
No, not from Gqeberha itself. The other slice would land in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,393 km from the nearest dry land (the United States), where the sea floor lies about 5,640 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,395 km from Gqeberha, 59 km from Charles Hill, Botswana. Its other slice would go down 7 km from Anahola, United States.
Gqeberha 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.