# @science on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-08-24T12:00:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Science 🧬 (@science) — https://gondola.cc/science

## Caption

🌍️ Point Nemo, or the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, is the place in the world where you are furthest from land. There’s nothing there except plastic particles and old satellites at the bottom of the sea. The closest humans are astronauts living on the International Space Station.⁠
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The location was first calculated in 1992 by a Croatian survey engineer called Hrvoje Lukatela, who pinpointed the spot 1,670 miles (2,688 kilometers) from the nearest land. The exact coordinates are 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W.⁠
It is named after Captain Nemo, the mysterious, misanthropic, deep-sea-dwelling character from Jules Verne’s classic sci-fi novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The name Nemo itself came from the Latin word for ‘nobody’.⁠
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Interestingly, Point Nemo is equidistant close to or far from three different islands. To the north, there is Ducie Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands; to the south, Maher Island, part of Antarctica, is the closest land; and 1,670 miles northeast of Point Nemo, you will find Motu Nui, one of the Easter Islands, and the closest humans on land. ⁠
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Yet when the International Space Station passes overhead, the astronauts on board are far, far closer to Point Nemo than Motu Nui. The site and the space station are just under 250 miles (or 400 kilometers) at their closest point.⁠
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