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You may need to swim a bit - but the idyllic Portuguese islands are our closest antipode (direct opposite).
The website https://www.antipodesmap.com/ lets you enter any location, and then gives you the spot you'd come out if you tunnelled directly through the earth.
It's a great time suck/source of trivia/research tool - in addition to Nowra (NSW, Australia) being pretty dang close to opposite a luxury travel destination, yours truly also discovered that there is an ethnic group called "Nowra" in Sudan, and that they appear to have a map location named after them.
So if you're enjoying the warm autumn weather lazing on the beach, and the kids say they're digging to China, you can tell them they're actually digging to a small island chain in the mid-Atlantic ocean off Portugal.
Then you might encourage them to dig harder.