We prove that the complement of any nonseparating planar graph of order
contains a
minor and argue that the order
is lowest possible with this property.
To illustrate the necessity of the nonseparating hypothesis, we give an example of a planar graph of order 11 whose
complement does not contain a
minor. We argue that the complements of planar graphs of order 11 are intrinsically
knotted. We compute the Hadwiger numbers of complements of wheel graphs.
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