The opposite side of the world from Port Vila (VLI)
Bauerfield International Airport — 17.70°S, 168.32°E
Exact antipodal point
17.70°N, 11.68°W
Nearest airport to that point
Kayes, Mali KYS
Kayes Dag Dag Airport
This is a genuinely close pairing — the airport sits just 359 km from the exact antipodal point.
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Of the maximum possible
98.2%
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.