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The opposite side of the world from Kingston (KIN)

Norman Manley International Airport17.94°N, 76.79°W

Exact antipodal point

17.94°S, 103.21°E

Nearest airport to that point

Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island XCH

Christmas Island International Airport

The exact point falls in open water or empty terrain: the nearest airport is 874 km away from it. Roughly 71% of the Earth is ocean, so most antipodes land at sea.

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Distance to that airport

19,141 km

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Of the maximum possible

95.6%

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.