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There's "antipodes" though.


Which implies that while the whole of ‘Australia and New Zealand’ can be referred to as ‘the antipodes’, Australia or New Zealand alone should be called ‘an antipus’.


"Antipous" has been used as a singular form of the word in some 19th-century works [0].

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antipous#English




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