The opposite side of the world from Canberra (CBR)
Canberra Airport — 35.31°S, 149.20°E
Exact antipodal point
35.31°N, 30.80°W
Nearest airport to that point
Horta, Portugal HOR
Horta Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 403 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
98%
No two points on Earth can be more than about 20,015 km apart.
The antipode is found by negating the latitude and shifting the longitude by 180°. Distances use the haversine formula on a sphere of mean radius 6,371.0088 km. Airport coordinates come from the public-domain OurAirports dataset.