Point Nemo, the furthest point from any land mass on Earth, is located in the Pacific Ocean and is 1,450 nautical miles from Ducie Island and Motu Nui. It is also known as the oceanic blackout point and is where space junk crashes after reentering Earth’s atmosphere.
If you wanted to find the furthest point from any land mass on Earth, you’d end up at Point Nemo, an ultra-remote point in the Pacific Ocean. It is 1,450 nautical miles (2,688 kilometers) from Ducie Island, which is part of the Pitcairn Islands, and Motu Nui, one of the Easter Islands.
Zooming out to a macro view, the coordinates (48°52.6’S 123°23.6’W) will take you to the Pacific, west of South America and east of Australia. This point, named after Captain Nemo from the Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, is also known as the oceanic blackout point.
Where space junk goes to die:
The oceanic blackout point was famously used by author HP Lovecraft as R’lyeh, the earthly home of Cthulhu.
This is the part of the Pacific where hundreds of satellites, space stations, and other spacecraft crash after reentering Earth’s atmosphere.
Croatian-Canadian engineer Hrvoje Lukatela located Point Nemo in 1992 using a geospatial computer program.
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