Dig straight down from the middle of the Torres Strait 🌊 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 Torres Strait's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 26,332 km² (10,167 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Australia 🇦🇺 · Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 |
| Also written | estrecho de Torres (es) · détroit de Torrès (fr) · 托雷斯海峡 (zh) · مضيق توريس (ar) · Торресов пролив (ru) · トレス海峡 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Torres Strait, that point sits at 10.1728° N, 37.6830° W. The nearest coast is Brazil 🇧🇷, roughly 1,471 km (914 miles) north.
The closest settlement of any size is Fortaleza, Brazil, about 1,551 km (964 miles) from the point.
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