Remotest spot from land

At 48.87°S, 123.39°W, there is a point in the South Pacific Ocean 2,688 kilometres (1,670 miles; 1,451 nautical miles) from land. It is known as Point Nemo, or the Pacific Pole of Inaccessibility. If you were at this spot, and the International Space Station were directly overhead (at an altitude of around 400 km [248 mi]), you would be nearer to its crew than to anyone on Earth. This hypothetical point is virtually equidistant between Ducie Island in the Pitcairn Islands to the north, Maher Island off the coast of Antarctica to the south and Motu Nui, an islet off Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) to the north-east.

Point Nemo is named after the character Captain Nemo in Jules Verne's adventure story Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).

The location of the theoretical point was first identified in 1992 by Croatian-Canadian survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela using a geospatial computer programme.