The antipodes of any place on the Earth is the place that is diametrically opposite it, so a line drawn from the one to the other passes through the centre of the Earth and forms a true diameter.
antipodes
Antipodes are a pair of points that are on opposite sides of a planet (like the North Pole and the South Pole).
archipelago
An archipelago is a group or chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean.
Antipodes/ Antipodal points
Two points on the sphere are called antipodal points, or antipodes, if the line connecting them passes through the center of the sphere.
The word Antipodes (pronounced an TIP uh deez) is also used in the United Kingdom to refer to Australia and New Zealand.
in three-dimensional Euclidean space that are located at a distance (the "radius") from a given point (the "center"). Twice the radius is called the diameter, and pairs of points on the sphere on opposite sides of a diameter are called antipodes.
 See also: Surface, Antipode, Origin, Globe, Area
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