What do you know about Nemo Point, the most inaccessible place on Earth?

Have you heard of the Earth inaccessible poles ? By definition, they are the places at a greater distance from any access point .It has to be equidistant from 3 points on the coastline .The Arctic Pole is, for example, the North Pole of inaccessibility, but what do you know about Nemo Point, the most inaccessible place on Earth ?

What do you know about Nemo Point, the most inaccessible place in La Earth?

If you are thinking of moving away from the world, this is the right place.You will be in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and you will hardly see anyone.It is not a "place" proper , but a useful point for scientists, explorers and adventurers .It is called Punto «Nemo» in honor to Captain Nemo of the novel by Julio Verne «20,000 leagues of underwater travel» and as "Nemo" means "nobody" in Latin , it is a most appropriate name.It is also known as the "Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility" .In that point of the Pacific Ocean, in addition, the depth is 3,700 meters.In case you want to locate it, here you have the coordinates: 123 ° 23.6′O.

This equidistant 2,680 km from three distant islands: If we go to the north we will find the Ducie Island , one of the Pitcairn Islands; if we go to the northeast we will arrive at an islet of Easter Island called Motu Nui and towards the south an island called Maher that belongs to Antarctica.

Finding this Nemo Point was not easy.It was achieved in 1992 thanks to modern technology and Croatian-Canadian engineer Hrvoje Lukatela that incorporated the Earth's ellipsoid shape into a coordinate calculation computer program to achieve greater accuracy.This inaccessibility pole is calculated in such a way that, although it could change due to the erosion of the coast or even more accurate measurement, it would not vary beyond a few meters.

One of the curiosities of the Nemo Point is that, although it seems impossible, sometimes the astronauts gravitate in space is the humans that are closest to the .The International Space Station orbiting the Earth to it is between 330 and 410 km from the surface, while the first inhabited place is 2,700 km from the Nemo Point.

What do you know about Nemo Point, the most inaccessible place on Earth?

This remoteness from any inhabited area has made agencies spacecraft from America, Europe and Japan use it as space graveyard .In its waters went, among other satellite fragments, the remains of the famous Mir Space Station .Fish have turned space junk into their habitat, as if they were the remains of a shipwreck.

As a last curiosity and dedicated to lovers of the novels of HPLovecraft , the Nemo Point It is incredibly near the place where this author placed R'lyeh , the sunken city in the depths of the Pacific where Cthulhu lives, the monstrous entity with tentacles on his head that first appeared in his work «The Call of Cthulhu«.

What do you know about Nemo Point, the most inaccessible place on Earth?

What do you think? Would you like to visit the Nemo Point? In addition, it seems that from that inaccessible area, comes the sound «Bloop» detected years ago on the seabed and to which there is no exact explanation.If you want to know more about it we invite you to read the article: Bloop, the story of a disturbing sound.

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