Antipodes

an-tip'o-dez (Greek, against feet), people who live on diametrically opposite portions of the earth's surface with their feet turned toward each other. The term is applied also to localities. Thus the north pole and the south pole are antipodes. Any two points on the equator, 180deg. apart, are antipodal. When noon in one place, it is necessarily midnight at the other, and if the places be not situated on the equator, it is midsummer at the one, when midwinter at the other. Antipodes Island is an uninhabited island about 460 miles southeast of New Zealand, so called from being nearly opposite Greenwich, England. See Earth; Geography; Galileo