Point Nemo: The Loneliest Place On Earth
23Oct,2023
Known as Point Nemo, this spot is located approximately 2,688 kilometers (1,450 nautical miles) from the nearest landmass, making it the most remote and isolated place on the planet.
Middle of the Ocean
Point Nemo was first identified by Hrvoje Lukatela, a Croatian-Canadian survey engineer, in 1992. Point Nemo has the largest computed distance of all measured coordinates.
Oceanic Pole
Point Nemo's uniquely remote location makes it an ideal spot for space debris to crash land safely.
Space Cemetry
Point Nemo's uniquely remote location makes it an ideal spot for space debris to crash land safely. Satellites and other space debris that fall out of orbit are often directed toward Point Nemo so that they can safely crash into the ocean
Lonely place
Some of the spacecraft buried there include several European Space Agency cargo ships, more than 140 Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and the Soviet-era MIR space station.
Buried spacecraft
Visiting Point Nemo is not an easy feat, as it requires a long and expensive voyage across some of the roughest seas on Earth
Rough seas
Point Nemo is located in the middle of the South Pacific Gyre, a large system of circulating ocean currents in the South Pacific Ocean
Dead Ocean
Phytoplankton, minute algae that form the bottom of the marine food chain, are found only at depths greater than a hundred meters.