Dig straight down from the middle of the Canal Perigoso 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the Selat Dampier 🌊, off the coast of Indonesia 🇮🇩. Below are the Canal Perigoso's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 530 km² (205 sq mi) |
|---|---|
| Bordering countries | Brazil 🇧🇷 |
| Also written | Canal Perigoso (es) · Canal Perigoso (fr) · 佩里戈索海峡 (zh) · قناة بيريجوسو (ar) · ペリゴソ運河 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Canal Perigoso, that point sits at 0.0726° S, 130.3254° E. The nearest coast is Indonesia 🇮🇩, roughly 2 km (1 miles) north-west.
The closest settlement of any size is Ternate, Indonesia, about 343 km (213 miles) from the point.
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