Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Stockholm

Antipode finder · Sweden

The antipode of
Stockholm.

Draw a straight line from Stockholm (59.33° N, 18.07° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 59.33° S, 161.93° W, in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,258 km from the nearest dry land. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.

Two globes: one centred on Stockholm, one centred on its antipode at 59.33° S, 161.93° W
Above StockholmAbove the antipode
Stockholm
59.33° N, 18.07° E · about 40 m above sea level · 1,515,017 people
Antipode
59.33° S, 161.93° W
What is there
The South Pacific Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 4,440 m below the surface
Nearest dry land
1,258 km from the antipode
Nearest town
Waitangi, New Zealand · 1,976 km from the antipode
Nearest big city
Auckland · 3,007 km from the antipode
Sandwich verdict
SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
Nearest exact spot
1,634 km away, near Réville, France ⇄ 731 km from Waitangi, New Zealand

Can you make an Earth sandwich from Stockholm?

No, not from Stockholm itself. The other slice would land in the South Pacific Ocean, 1,258 km from the nearest dry land, where the sea floor lies about 4,440 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).

The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,634 km from Stockholm, 8 km from Réville, France. Its other slice would go down 731 km from Waitangi, New Zealand.

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.