In most countries, people have a belief about where they'd end up if they dug their way through the center of the Earth and popped up on the other side, more technically known as the "antipode". The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.
For people in the USA, they think it's China. For people in the UK, they think it's Australia. Australians think it's somewhere in Europe and hope it's not the UK because who can blame them. But if you try an interactive tool , you will largely find out that the answer is usually "an ocean" and more often than not, the Pacific Ocean.
The Pacific Ocean is gigantic, the largest water mass on the Earth and covering more than 30 percent of our planet's surface.
"With a surface area of more than