Antipodes - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In 2006, Ze Frank challenged viewers of his daily webcast the show with zefrank to create an "Earth sandwich" by simultaneously placing two pieces of bread at antipodal points on the Earth's surface. The challenge was successfully completed by viewers in Spain and New Zealand.
• The May 19, 2008, official Lost audio podcast gave credence to a theory that the Island (the setting of the show) is located at Tunisia's antipode, in the south Pacific east of New Zealand.
• On the popular TV show Angel, the Deeper Well is a hole that goes through the world, with its entrance in The Cotswolds in England and its antipode in New Zealand.
• New Zealand writer Mark Price undertook a tour in 2005–06 of the length of New Zealand and its land antipodes in Morocco and Spain, from Kerikeri 35°13′01.4″S 173°57′46.6″E / 35.217056°S 173.962944°E / -35.217056; 173.962944 (near Larache and Lixus, Morocco 35°13′01.4″N 6°02′13.4″W / 35.217056°N 6.037056°W / 35.217056; -6.037056) to Cathedral Square, Christchurch 43°31′52.2″S 172°38′08.8″E / 43.531167°S 172.635778°E / -43.531167; 172.635778 (near Foz, Spain 43°31′52.2″N 7°21′51.2″W / 43.531167°N 7.364222°W / 43.531167; -7.364222).
• An episode of the fourth series of the science fiction television series Torchwood refers to Shanghai and Buenos Aires as being antipodes of each other. The tenth episode notes more precisely that they are "perfect antipodes" while acknowledging that is only accurate "give or take a hundred miles or so."
• A common misconception, often expressed in pop culture, is that if one were to burrow through the earth from the United States, one would end up in China. In fact only portions of South America are antipodes with China. The scientific term China Syndrome takes its name (though not its concept) from this misconception.