Dig straight down from the middle of the Inner Seas 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the South Pacific Ocean 🌊, off the coast of New Zealand 🇳🇿. Below are the Inner Seas's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 44,621 km² (17,228 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 · Ireland 🇮🇪 |
| Also written | mar de las Hébridas (es) · mer des Hébrides (fr) · 赫布里底海 (zh) · بحر الهبرديس (ar) · Гебридское море (ru) · ヘブリディーズ海 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Inner Seas, that point sits at 56.5841° S, 173.0017° E. The nearest coast is New Zealand 🇳🇿, roughly 510 km (317 miles) south-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Dunedin, New Zealand, about 1,202 km (747 miles) from the point.
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