Australia, Digging A Hole!

[saintpeter48]

When I was a child back in the 1950s I'd often play for hours in the garden, I remember a few times digging a hole and thinking that if I dug deeper and deeper i'd end up in Australia......
Here's the question, I still live right on the South Coast of England, if I were to dig a hole straight down, where would I come out the other end, somewhere in an ocean I expect, one for greater minds than mine!

[hellywelly4]

I remember doing that Peter over 70 years ago!!!

[saintpeter48]

hellywelly4, we could've met in the middle!

[davebro]

The opposite side of the world to Brighton is Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

[davebro]

https://www.geodatos.net/en/antipodes#:~:text=What%20is%20an%20antipode%3F,the%20world%20from%20that%20location.

[mushroom25]

find out here (enter your location in the searchbox at the top)

https://www.antipodesmap.com/

[pastafreak]

For me...on the American east coast...it was "digging a hole to China".

[pastafreak]

But it's actually Augusta in Western Australia.

[Mamyalynne]

Somebody help, I'm in the water!

[CrapAtCryptics]

Pretty much mid Northern Pacific

[tiggerblue10]

I was too scared to dip my toe in the magma so I'm back on the crust.

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Swimming alongside you Mamya. Somewhere off the coast of the South Island New Zealand.

[pastafreak]

Papatowai, New Zealand. At least I'm on land!
My previous location was from my childhood home.

[sanmac]

I'd be swimming with the sharks in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles SW of Perth, Australia.

[emmie]

me too davebro

[Ken4155]

I did read some time back that no matter where in the world you were, if it were possible to dig right through the Earth's core, chances re you would come out the other end in water. There are few places one could begin and end their excavation on dry land.

[emmie]

seeing the earth is 70 percent water that makes sense

[Ken4155]

I also read that there is a place (in Argentina, i think) where you can begin your dig and emerge on the other side of the world in a place of the same name or very, very similar.

[Vagus]

Our two sons and one of their friends, when they were around 6/7/8 spent all summer holidays digging a hole in our back garden. They had so much fun and were no trouble at all. The youngest, when stood in the hole, could just about see out.
The lawn never recovered in that area, always had a dip, so we eventually put a bird bath there, often makes me smile when I look at it.

[bookbinder]

I don't think that you would come out at the other end of your hole through the planet. I once saw a science fiction film, in which such a hole was dug. A man was thrown into the hole, but he fell only as far as the planet's centre, at the limit of gravity. He could not continue to the other end of the hole, because gravity held him halfway down the hole, and there he stayed, for eternity. It looked credible, I thought.

[jno]

was he feeling the heat at all, bookbinder?

If you dug from Brighton you'd emerge near the Chatham Islands off the south-east coast of New Zealand.