Dig straight down from the middle of the La Pérouse Strait 🌊 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 La Pérouse Strait's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 39 km² (15 sq mi) |
|---|---|
| Bordering countries | Japan 🇯🇵 · Russia 🇷🇺 |
| Also written | Estrecho de La Pérouse (es) · détroit de La Pérouse (fr) · 拉彼鲁兹海峡 (zh) · مضيق لا بيروز (ar) · Пролив Лаперуза (ru) · 宗谷海峡 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the La Pérouse Strait, that point sits at 45.4610° S, 38.1311° W. The nearest coast is South Georgia and the Islands 🇬🇸, roughly 949 km (590 miles) north.
The closest settlement of any size is Stanley, Falkland Islands, about 1,601 km (995 miles) from the point.
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