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Opposite Ends
How the two halves of the planet mirror each other.
Opposite Ends
What Is Directly on the Other Side of the World?
Dig straight down from most of the United States and you end up in the Indian Ocean. Meet the antipodes, the exact opposite points on the globe.
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Summer in July, Summer in January
The seasons run in opposite directions on each half of the world. The cause is the tilt of the planet, not its distance from the Sun.
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One End Is a Sea, the Other Is a Continent
The North Pole sits on floating ice above deep ocean. The South Pole stands on a high ice sheet on land. That single difference explains much of the rest.
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Polar Bears Have Never Met a Penguin
Holiday cards put them on the same iceberg. In the wild, they live half a planet apart. Here is who really lives at each end.
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About Our Name
Scientists use the word bipolar for things found at both ends of the Earth. That is the only sense in which we use it here, and this is why.