Let's say you're at Los Angeles, from this point, if you were to drive a tunnel through the earth and exit out from the other side of the planet, where will you be? Will it be the Asia oceans? or China?
2007-01-27 02:48:04 · 3 answers · asked by wraithrune 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
What you're talking about is called the antipode. LA coordinates are 118.2430 East and 34.0522 North. I got this from wiki.
Put details in first link and calculate.
Find location on second link
It brings you out SE of Madagascar on a similar latitude to Cape Town at the tip of Africa
There are only a handful of big cities that have an antipode that is also another city of any significant size.
2007-01-27 04:44:53 · answer #1 · answered by giraffe boy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me suggest a way for you to find the exact answer to this good question. First you determine the longitude that runs through Los Angeles. Add 180 degrees to that and substract the result from 360 degrees. This will get you to the exact opposite side of the earth in longitude east of zero degrees longitude. Next you find the latitude in the southern hemisphere that equals the latitude that runs through Los Angeles. Where it intersects the longitude you have found, you will have found the exact position on the other side of the globe. You should find it to be approximately 60 E longitude and 35 S latitude, somewhere southeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
2007-01-27 11:11:26 · answer #2 · answered by 1ofSelby's 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
madagascar
2014-10-01 01:08:03 · answer #3 · answered by nina 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋