antipodes
noun
[ anˈtɪpədiːz ]
• Australia and New Zealand (used by inhabitants of the northern hemisphere).
• "there were plants from the Antipodes, including eucalyptuses and acacias"
• the direct opposite of something.
• "voting and violence are antipodes"
Origin:
late Middle English: via French or late Latin from Greek antipodes ‘having the feet opposite’, from anti ‘against, opposite’ + pous, pod- ‘foot’. The term originally denoted the inhabitants of opposite sides of the earth.
