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Where is Point Nemo, the most isolated place on the planet and final destination of decommissioned spacecraft?

oglobo5 September 2026 at 07:00

There is in the ocean a place so remote and isolated that the nearest humans are the astronauts orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station. In 1992, Croatian engineer Hrvoje Lukatela was the first person to locate this site, which he called the "oceanic pole of inaccessibility."

To calculate the point in the ocean farthest from shore, Lukatela used a geolocation program and followed an apparently simple criterion: define a circle with three land points whose interior was filled only with water. The center of that circle would be the desired location.

The engineer positioned Point Nemo in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whose coordinates are currently considered to be 48°52.6'S-123°23.6'W. Later, the scientific community renamed it "Point Nemo" in honor of Captain Nemo, a character from the novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne.

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