Dig straight down from the middle of the Tatar 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 Tatar Strait's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 5,398 km² (2,084 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Russia 🇷🇺 |
| Also written | Estrecho de Tartaria (es) · détroit de Tartarie (fr) · 鞑靼海峡 (zh) · مضيق تارتاري (ar) · Татарский пролив (ru) · 間宮海峡 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Tatar Strait, that point sits at 52.6042° S, 38.4648° W. The nearest coast is South Georgia and the Islands 🇬🇸, roughly 159 km (99 miles) north.
The closest settlement of any size is Orcadas Station, Antarctica, about 981 km (610 miles) from the point.
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