ANTIPODES, a term applied strictly to any two people or places on opposite sides of the earth, so situated that a line drawn from the one to the other passes through the centre of the globe and forms a globe diameter. (Gr. Cirri, opposed to, and irOber, feet.) Any two places having this relation—as London and, ap proximately, Antipodes Island, near New Zealand—must be dis tant from each other by 180° of longitude, and the one must be as many degrees to the north of the equator as the other is to the south, in other words, the latitudes are numerically equal, but one is north and the other south. At the antipodes the sea sons and day and night are reversed but in calculation of days and nights, midnight on the one side may be regarded as cor responding to noon either of the previous or the following day.