Point Nemo
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More
Gary Arndt
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wanted to get away from it all? I mean really, really, really get away from it all. |
| 0:08.0 | Then have I got the place for you. Point Nemo. Point |
| 0:12.6 | Nemo is literally the most remote place on planet Earth. |
| 0:16.7 | Learn more about Point Nemo and other poles of inaccessibility |
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| 1:30.0 | If you want to visit Pointe-Me-Me-Mo, |
| 1:32.0 | you'll need a good ship and a GPS because there is nothing about Point Nemo which is special other than being a place on a map. |
| 1:39.0 | Point Nemo is the point on earth that is furthest away from any spec of land. |
| 1:45.0 | Located in the southern Pacific Ocean, roughly between New Zealand and Chile, |
| 1:49.0 | Point Nemo is 2,68 kilometers or 1,608.88 kilometers or 1,670 miles from Easter Island, Pitcairn Island, and Marie Birdland in Antarctica. |
| 2:00.0 | Unlike most discoveries on the planet, Point Nemo wasn't discovered by someone on a ship. |
| 2:06.2 | It was discovered in 1992 by Hervoia Lukatella, a Croatian Canadian engineer who programmed |
| 2:12.0 | a geospatial computer to find the place on Earth |
| 2:14.6 | which was furthest from land. |
| 2:16.8 | He named the spot after Captain Nemo from the Jules Verne novel 20,000 leagues under the sea. |
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