There’s this spot along the Great Australian Bight, halfway between nowhere and the middle thereof. You can walk out to the limestone cliffs that rise one hundred metres out of the 
Great Southern Ocean. Looking south, it’s hard to imagine that the next point of land is Antarctica. If you turn and look along the coast, you will see many points of land projecting into the water, much like the one on which you are standing. The projections seem to shrink successively into the distance as you eventually realize that what you are actually seeing is the curvature of the Earth. It’s really a gentle bend that one can only notice when looking beyond the horizon. As I gazed out into infinity from the tip of the world, a sudden realisation befell me as a deafening silence. I have never felt as humbled as when I looked out into nothing and saw that I am utterly and totally insignificant in this frighteningly immense Universe.
Great Southern Ocean. Looking south, it’s hard to imagine that the next point of land is 