Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / New York City
Antipode finder · United States
The antipode of
New York City.
Draw a straight line from New York City (40.71° N, 74.01° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 40.71° S, 105.99° E, in the Indian Ocean, 1,068 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Australia. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- New York City
- 40.71° N, 74.01° W · about 40 m above sea level · 8,804,190 people
- Antipode
- 40.71° S, 105.99° E
- What is there
- The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,280 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 1,068 km from the antipode, on the coast of Australia
- Nearest town
- Augusta, Australia · 1,076 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Perth · 1,314 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 2,454 km away, 34 km from Lamar, United States ⇄ 1,410 km from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories
Can you make an Earth sandwich from New York City?
No, not from New York City itself. The other slice would land in the Indian Ocean, 1,068 km from the nearest dry land (Australia), where the sea floor lies about 4,280 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 2,454 km from New York City, 34 km from Lamar, United States. Its other slice would go down 1,410 km from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories.
New York City is on the The US & Canada ↔ the southern Indian Ocean 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.