Dig straight down from the middle of the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf 🌊 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 Barbados 🇧🇧. Below are the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 27,565 km² (10,643 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Australia 🇦🇺 |
| Also written | Golfo de José Bonaparte (es) · Golfe Joseph Bonaparte (fr) · 約瑟夫·波拿巴灣 (zh) · خليج جوزيف بونابرت (ar) · Жозеф-Бонапарт (ru) · ジョセフ・ボナパルト湾 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, that point sits at 14.4388° N, 51.3572° W. The nearest coast is Barbados 🇧🇧, roughly 883 km (549 miles) east.
The closest settlement of any size is Bridgetown, Barbados, about 904 km (562 miles) from the point.
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