Point Nemo, the Most Remote Place on Earth

[GordMay]

“Point Nemo, the Most Remote Place on Earth” ~ by Cullen Murphy
➥ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...-place/679947/

“It’s the farthest place in the world from land. A lot seems to be going on there.
It’s called the “longest-swim problem”: If you had to drop someone at the place in the ocean farthest from any speck of land—the remotest spot on Earth—where would that place be?
The answer, proposed only a few decades ago, is a location in the South Pacific with the coordinates 48°52.5291ʹS x 123°23.5116ʹW, the “oceanic point of inaccessibility”, to use the formal name.
It doesn’t get many visitors. But one morning last year, I met several people who had just come from there ..."

[GordMay]

“Where is Point Nemo?” ~ National Ocean Service, NOAA
➥ https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nemo.html

“... This remote oceanic location is located at coordinates 48°52.6 S 123°23.6 W, about 2,688 kilometers from the nearest land—Ducie Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands, to the north; Motu Nui, one of the Easter Islands, to the northeast; and Maher Island, part of Antarctica, to the south ..”

“8 facts about Point Nemo” ~ The Volvo Ocean Race
➥ https://archive.theoceanrace.com/en/...oint-Nemo.html

“... You can't actually see it. That's because ‘Point’ Nemo isn’t actually a bit of land. It’s an invisible spot in the vast Southern Ocean furthest from land, in any direction. Other poles of inaccessibility include the Eurasian Pole, in China, or the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility in Antarctica – a very difficult place to visit ...”

[barnakiel]

It is nice to be very very remote. I remember sailing the S Pacific I felt remote quite a lot. Too bad that nemo place is too far S for our little boat. Cold wet and mostly windy.


Now that you mentioned I will go and look what point is the most inland place. Probably something in Russia. I think Asia is the biggest continent.


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[barnakiel]

Kazakhstan. I knew it. Borat will be proud.


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[JPA Cate]

Gives "Seeking Nemo" a whole different meaning!

[danstanford]

Originally Posted by barnakiel

It is nice to be very very remote. I remember sailing the S Pacific I felt remote quite a lot. Too bad that nemo place is too far S for our little boat. Cold wet and mostly windy.


Now that you mentioned I will go and look what point is the most inland place. Probably something in Russia. I think Asia is the biggest continent.


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The uniqueness and origin of the name is that when you are at Point Nemo, the closest people to you are on the space station! When you are in those isolated places in the Southern Ocean you are very likely not able to be rescued if something happens. Ships generally don't go there and they cannot be reached by helicopter so they bring another level to the word remote.

[GordMay]

The Eurasian pole of inaccessibility (EPIA) is located at 46°17 N x 86°40 E, in northwestern China, near the Kazakhstan border. It is the furthest possible point, on land, from the ocean, at 2,645km [1,644 miles], from the nearest coastline.

The centre of the standard geographic model, as viewed on a traditional world map, is the point 0°, 0° [the coordinates of zero degrees latitude by zero degrees longitude], which is located in the Atlantic Ocean, about 614 km (382 mi) south of Accra, Ghana, in the Gulf of Guinea.
It lies at the intersection of the Equator, and the Prime Meridian, is marked with a buoy, and is sometimes called Null Island.

The most remote island is Bouvet Island, a small, uninhabited island, in the South Atlantic Ocean [54°26 S x 3°24 E], that is a dependency of Norway.
The nearest land is the uninhabited Queen Maud Land, Antarctica [also claimed by Norway], over 1,600 km (1,000 mi) to the south. The nearest inhabited lands are Gough Island, 1,845 km (1,146 mi) away, Tristan da Cunha, 2,260 km (1,404 mi) away, and the coast of South Africa, 2,580 km (1,603 mi) away.

[El Pinguino]

While I have never actually been to Point Nemo I have passed fairly close north and south of it more than a few times - somewhere on the high side of 60 times at the last count .
If your boat sinks you may be able to go the full Worsley and either paddle to somewhere down wind or just bob around until someone turns up.

If a door falls off your Boeing things aren't looking quite so rosy.
The 787s flying the route are meant to be able to get to somewhere ( Tahiti? McMurdo?) on one engine. That would be fun with the wind whistling through the cabin at somewhere south of 0ºC. Not sure how endurance is affected at 10,000 feet.
Where I spent last Wednesday night/Thursday morning vvvvvvvv

And yes, there are ships down there but dress warm - and pack some sandwiches.