Dig straight down from the middle of the McMurdo Sound 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the Greenland Sea 🌊, off the coast of Greenland 🇬🇱. Below are the McMurdo Sound's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 82,865 km² (31,994 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Antarctica 🇦🇶 |
| Also written | Estrecho de McMurdo (es) · détroit de McMurdo (fr) · 麦克默多湾 (zh) · ماكموردو ساوند (ar) · Мак-Мёрдо (ru) · マクマード入江 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the McMurdo Sound, that point sits at 75.6541° N, 14.0793° W. The nearest coast is Greenland 🇬🇱, roughly 116 km (72 miles) north-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Longyearbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands, about 787 km (489 miles) from the point.
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