Dig straight down from the middle of the Selat Dampier 🌊 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 Brazil 🇧🇷. Below are the Selat Dampier's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 11,595 km² (4,477 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Indonesia 🇮🇩 |
| Also written | Estrecho de Dampier (es) · Détroit de Dampier (fr) · 丹皮尔海峡 (zh) · مضيق دامبير (ar) · Дампир (ru) · ダンピア海峡 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Selat Dampier, that point sits at 0.6804° N, 48.9600° W. The nearest coast is Brazil 🇧🇷, roughly 85 km (53 miles) north-east.
The closest settlement of any size is Belém, Brazil, about 243 km (151 miles) from the point.
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