Rural Cheyenne County in eastern Colorado is one of the few locales in the continental U.S. to feature a "non-oceanic antipode."
An antipode is a point on the diametrically opposite side of a planet's surface. (The earth is round, you know.)
For most parts of the U.S., it's ocean.
In the case of Cheyenne County, its antipode is a remote, rocky volcanic island in the Indian Ocean called Ile Saint-Paul, which is uninhabited. There is, however, a "castaway hut" for survivors of shipwrecks, which is pictured above.
Cheyenne Wells is county seat of Cheyenne County. There are no castaway huts for shipwrecks in Cheyenne County.
[Photo: Wikipedia]
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