Dig straight down from the middle of the Gulf of Kamchatka 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the South Atlantic Ocean 🌊, off the coast of South Georgia and the Islands 🇬🇸. Below are the Gulf of Kamchatka's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 7,530 km² (2,907 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Russia 🇷🇺 |
| Also written | Golfo de Kamchatka (es) · baie du Kamtchatka (fr) · 堪察加灣 (zh) · خليج كامتشاتكا (ar) · Камчатский залив (ru) · カムチャツカ湾 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Gulf of Kamchatka, that point sits at 55.7475° S, 17.6504° W. The nearest coast is South Georgia and the Islands 🇬🇸, roughly 599 km (372 miles) north-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Orcadas Station, Antarctica, about 1,665 km (1,035 miles) from the point.
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