💡 Trivia The Closest People To Earth's Point Nemo Are In The International Space Station

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Point Nemo, officially known as “the oceanic pole of inaccessibility,” is the point in the ocean that is farthest away from any land.

The Pacific Ocean spot, named after the captain from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, is surrounded by more than 1,000 miles of ocean in every direction, and the closest landmasses to it are the Pitcairn Islands to the north, the Easter Islands to the northeast, and an island off the coast of Antarctica to the south.

With the land closest to Point Nemo more than 1,000 miles away in every direction, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station are the closest humans to the point, as the station is only 258 miles from Earth.

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