Interesting, is the ring road around Tavuki Island THE only road that falls on the anti-meridian, at all? A quick look along the line and it looks like it.
It's wild that on google maps, even dropping a pin on the Tavuki road and trying to drag it across the line, it just stops, hitting this invisible wall.
Something about this experience makes me want to go there....
Wow, even zooming in and out on that island makes Google Maps skip into the middle of the ocean.
Edit: and the nearby Rabi Island has a discontinuity at the meridian in map view. Zooming in on it in satellite view sent the map into a crazy refreshing state with flickering grid lines.
These real-life effects by our decisions in technology sometimes half way around the world are very interesting to me. Similar to how some poeple are unlucky enough to live in their communities geographic center that becomes the default location for GPS lookups for that location.
There was US mapping software (not the international scientific survey semi open source stuff, commercial mapping for US public) in the late 1980s and 1990s that actually had positive longitude displays over the US mainland so that their users didn't have to think in negative numbers.
As I noted elsewhere in this thread, large swathes of US software couldn't handle mapping computations that straddled the date line and it's breathtaking that this is still an issue today.
It's wild that on google maps, even dropping a pin on the Tavuki road and trying to drag it across the line, it just stops, hitting this invisible wall.
Something about this experience makes me want to go there....