Dig straight down from the middle of the Great Barrier Reef 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊, off the coast of Cabo Verde 🇨🇻. Below are the Great Barrier Reef's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 348,358 km² (134,502 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Australia 🇦🇺 |
| Also written | Gran barrera de coral (es) · grande barrière de corail (fr) · 大堡礁 (zh) · الحيد المرجاني العظيم (ar) · Большой Барьерный риф (ru) · グレート・バリア・リーフ (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Great Barrier Reef, that point sits at 17.0014° N, 33.6430° W. The nearest coast is Cabo Verde 🇨🇻, roughly 883 km (549 miles) west.
The closest settlement of any size is Praia, Cape Verde, about 1,107 km (688 miles) from the point.
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