Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
What's on the exact opposite side of the world to Harringay
It's a hard news kind of a day. So I thought I'd get in there with this earth shattering piece of information. It's....ahem....new, important and relevant!
Perhaps not, but a way to while away a few minutes when you need a bit of displacement.
Antipodes Map will enable you to see what's exactly on the opposite side of the world to any place you want. We're bang opposite nothing.....well almost nothing; we're bang opposite the international date line in fact. Didn't I tell you it was going to be exciting!
What else can we learn of the world?
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Hugh. I thought I had a lot of time on my hands...
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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on
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I have to add that it isn't exactly surprising, given how close we are (relatively) to Greenwich, that we're opposite the International Date Line...
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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In my defence, it was something I came across whilst sourcing something for work - we all need displacement activities, nah?
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I don't know what you mean (she says, typing from her desk at work...)
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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BTW, NZ is opposite Spain (above).
ONE of the main reasons that Greenwich was accepted (except for many years, by France) as the prime meridian, is that the opposite longitude - and where the date would change - was through a largely uninhabited area of ocean: right down through the Pacfic, with a few kinks along the way. That, and the fact that Britain was the dominant maritime nation in Victorian times.
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