Flipside
Ross Dependency, Antarctica Ludwigsburger Meike left this comment after my last blogpost:- Now where does one get when staying on the same invisible line, crossing the South Pole and then heading back towards the North Pole on the "back" of our beautiful planet? From The South Pole, we travel over Antarctica's Ross Dependency which is icy, inhospitable territory overseen by New Zealand. Striking north across The Southern Ocean we are well east of New Zealand and we only skirt outlying islands and reefs of the Fiji Group, before passing between the French dependencies of Wallis and Futuna. In fact, the line of longitude, which is by the way, 178.5 degrees East, does not cross any land until it reaches Great Sitkin in the Aleutian Islands before heading straight over eastern Russia's Chukota Peninsula.. Uninhabited Great Sitkin Island in the Aleutian chain. Then the line crosses the eastern most tip of Wrangel Island which is also a Russian possession. ...