Longtime Neatorama reader know Tristan Da Cunha is the most remote place on earth where people actually live. That island seems downright civilized when compared to the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility, known as Point Nemo, which has no people and no land. Point Nemo is the spot in the Pacific Ocean that is further from land than anywhere else on earth. It's cold and stormy and sees no one except for during the occasional round-the-world boat races. The nearest dry land is 1,670 miles away. Most of the time, the closest people are in the ISS, passing 258 miles overhead.
But Point Nemo has a lot of human artifacts, because space programs try to steer old satellites, including space stations, in the area near Point Nemo to keep it from falling somewhere it could do us harm. That's been the case since Skylab fell to the earth in 1979 and Australia issued NASA a fine for littering. How much space junk could be around Point Nemo? We don't know, because it's inaccessible. Read about Point Nemo and its treasure trove of space debris at BBC Future. -via Damn Interesting
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