Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Monrovia
Antipode finder · Liberia
The antipode of
Monrovia.
Draw a straight line from Monrovia (6.30° N, 10.80° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 6.30° S, 169.20° E, in the South Pacific Ocean, 451 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of the Solomon Islands. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Monrovia
- 6.30° N, 10.80° W · about 40 m above sea level · 1,542,549 people
- Antipode
- 6.30° S, 169.20° E
- What is there
- The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,400 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 451 km from the antipode, on the coast of the Solomon Islands
- Nearest town
- Lata, Solomon Islands · 618 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Brisbane · 2,908 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 591 km away, 45 km from Kimbo, Guinea ⇄ 38 km from Lata, Solomon Islands
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Monrovia?
No, not from Monrovia itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 451 km from the nearest dry land (the Solomon Islands), where the sea floor lies about 3,400 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 591 km from Monrovia, 45 km from Kimbo, Guinea. Its other slice would go down 38 km from Lata, Solomon Islands.
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.