Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Sydney
Antipode finder · Australia
The antipode of
Sydney.
Draw a straight line from Sydney (33.87° S, 151.21° E) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 33.87° N, 28.79° W, in the North Atlantic Ocean, 476 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of Portugal. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.
- Sydney
- 33.87° S, 151.21° E · at about sea level · 5,638,830 people
- Antipode
- 33.87° N, 28.79° W
- What is there
- The North Atlantic Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,000 m below the surface
- Nearest dry land
- 476 km from the antipode, on the coast of Portugal
- Nearest town
- Lajes, Portugal · 506 km from the antipode
- Nearest big city
- Casablanca · 1,956 km from the antipode
- Sandwich verdict
- SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
- Nearest exact spot
- 1,948 km away, near Bourail, New Caledonia ⇄ 37 km from Tichla, Western Sahara
Can you make an Earth sandwich from Sydney?
No, not from Sydney itself. The other slice would land in the North Atlantic Ocean, 476 km from the nearest dry land (Portugal), where the sea floor lies about 3,000 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).
The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 1,948 km from Sydney, 12 km from Bourail, New Caledonia. Its other slice would go down 37 km from Tichla, Western Sahara.
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.