Dig straight down from the middle of the Karaginskiy Gulf 🌊 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 Karaginskiy Gulf's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 30,557 km² (11,798 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Russia 🇷🇺 |
| Also written | Golfo Karaguinski (es) · Golfe Karaguinski (fr) · 卡拉加湾 (zh) · خليج كاراجينسكي (ar) · Карагинский залив (ru) · カラギンスキー湾 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Karaginskiy Gulf, that point sits at 59.1043° S, 16.4159° W. The nearest coast is South Georgia and the Islands 🇬🇸, roughly 571 km (355 miles) east.
The closest settlement of any size is Neumayer Station III, Antarctica, about 1,368 km (850 miles) from the point.
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