Dig straight down from the middle of the Drake Passage 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in Russia 🇷🇺. Below are the Drake Passage's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Bordering countries | Antarctica 🇦🇶 · Chile 🇨🇱 |
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| Also written | Pasaje de Drake (es) · passage de Drake (fr) · 德雷克海峡 (zh) · ممر دريك (ar) · Пролив Дрейка (ru) · ドレーク海峡 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Drake Passage, that point sits at 64.5503° N, 115.9625° E. The closest town to it is Mirny, Russia, about 244 km (152 miles) away.
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