Antarctica · Antarctica
Can you dig through the Earth to Antarctica?
Yes!
But only if you start in Greenland, Canada or Russia. About 32% of Antarctica’s exact opposite side is land; the rest is the Arctic Ocean.
- 12,715 kmtunnel from the middle of Antarctica
- 32%of the other side is land
- 68%of the other side is water
AntarcticaStart digging in here to reach it
What about from where you are?
Tap ◎ or search to see where your own tunnel would come out, and how far you’d be from Antarctica.
If you dug straight down from Antarctica, where would you come out?
Flip Antarctica to the exact opposite side of the planet and this is where it lands:
Digging from Antarctica’s biggest cities
- McMurdo Stationcomes out in Greenland Sea138 km from Greenland
- Esperanza Basecomes out in Russia
- Casey Stationcomes out in Canada
- Amundsen–Scott South Pole Stationcomes out in Arctic Ocean712 km from Nationalparken, Greenland
- Mirny Stationcomes out in Canada