Point Nemo

English
Location of Point Nemo in relation to the three closest coastline points

Etymology

Named after the character Captain Nemo in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. The novel was a childhood favorite of Croatian survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela, who first discovered Point Nemo in 1992.

Proper noun

Point Nemo

  1. The location in the ocean that is farthest from land, situated in the South Pacific Ocean at roughly 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W, equally distant from the three closest land vertices which are each roughly 2,688 km (1,670 mi) away; the oceanic pole of inaccessibility.
    • 2023 June 5, Yvonne Gordon, “Microplastics found in every sample of water taken during Ocean Race”, in The Guardian‎:
      Samples taken near the planet’s most remote area, Point Nemo, which is 2,688km (1,450 nautical miles) from land in all directions, revealed 320 microplastic particles per cubic metre, compared with 9-41 in the last race.

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