Student makes ‘Earth sandwich’ with help from stranger on other side of world

A student in New Zealand and a man in Spain have created a sandwich with 7,917 miles of filling.

The two self-confessed geeks put two slices of bread at exact opposite sides of Earth after Etienne Naude, 19, worked out the precise coordinates.

He posted a picture of himself crouched next to a slice of bread at Bucklands Beach, in Auckland.

He then recruited the help of a fellow Reddit user in Spain to do the same thing at the side of a rural road around 55 miles out of Malaga.

In doing so, they created an earth Sandwich.

Etienne used this map tunnelling tool to work out where the pieces of bread should be placed.

These diametrically opposed points are known as antipodes and only a handful of them are both on dry land. The UK’s antipodes are in the Pacific Ocean, which gave the name to the Antipodes Islands.

Both he and his Spanish cyber-friends shared their coordinates in Etienne’s post on Saturday, to which one Reddit said: ‘I think this is one of the nerdiest things I’ve seen! Very adorable.’

Others asked if the sandwich was gluten free and whether they had smeared Marmite on it.

To celebrate the feat, Etienne said he used a laser to etch an image of an ‘Earth sandwich’ into 20 pieces of bread.

It comes after two Youtubers flew from London to Australia so they could place a slice of bread on either side of the globe to make an Earth sandwich of their own.

Jay Swingler and Romell Henry travelled for two days straight and spent a total of £7,000 to complete the stunt.