Dig straight down from the middle of the Sea of Okhotsk 🌊 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 Sea of Okhotsk's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 1,458,845 km² (563,263 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Russia 🇷🇺 · Japan 🇯🇵 |
| Also written | mar de Ojotsk (es) · mer d'Okhotsk (fr) · 鄂霍次克海 (zh) · بحر أوخوتسك (ar) · Охотское море (ru) · オホーツク海 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Sea of Okhotsk, that point sits at 51.5520° S, 30.0663° W. The nearest coast is South Georgia and the Islands 🇬🇸, roughly 513 km (319 miles) north-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Orcadas Station, Antarctica, about 1,361 km (846 miles) from the point.
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