If you are willing to go or escape to the middle of nowhere, where no one bothers you or costs you beyond your power, your destination is more or less known; You can go straight to Point Nemo, the most isolated spot in the South Pacific Ocean .
Scientists have determined this point to be the farthest from humans and any land on Earth, to the extent that the closest humans to this point are the astronauts on the International Space Station and not humans on Earth.
Where is Point Nemo located?
According to the British newspaper , The Guardian, Point Nemo is officially known as the "inaccessible marine pole", or "the point in the ocean furthest from land".
"Nemo Point" was named after the character of Captain "Nemo", the hero of the novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Water" by Jules Verne, and "Nemo" is also a Latin word meaning "no one".
It can be said that this point is literally "middle of nowhere", surrounded by more than 1,600 kilometers of ocean water in every direction. And the site is so isolated that the nearest inhabited Earth is about 2,700 kilometers away, and this makes the astronauts aboard the International Space Station - who are only 330 kilometers from this point - the closest to it.
According to the website " The Ocean Race", Point Nemo was not known until 1992, when it was discovered by Croatian-Canadian surveyor, Hrvoje Lukatila, when he was trying to find the farthest point from land using a geographic computer program, knowing that he did not go to get there, but only use technology to calculate the exact location. Lukatella realized that because the Earth is three-dimensional or spherical, the farthest point in the ocean must be equal from 3 different coastlines.
So we will find that the point of Nemo is located in the heart of a perfectly equilateral triangle, formed by the coasts of 3 remote islands, each 1600 km away, and these islands are Dossey Island (one of the Pitcairn Islands), and Motu Nui Island (small in size and is part of the chain of Easter Island) Maher Island (off the coast of Antarctica).
Biological life at the point of nemo
According to the Atlas Obscura website, there are no trade routes to get to Point Nemo, and perhaps the good reason for that is that there is nothing there, just vast stretches of open ocean. The only thing a visitor will find is the honor of overcoming its inaccessibility compared to anyone else on the planet.
As for marine life, it is not much different from the difficulty of humans reaching this point, scientists have described Point Nemo as "the least biologically active region in the world's ocean."
Point Nemo's coordinates lie within the South Pacific Gyre, a massive rotating current that prevents nutrient-rich water from flowing into the area. Without any food sources, sustaining most of life in this part of the ocean would be impossible. However, scientists have documented many bacteria and small crabs that live near volcanic vents on the sea floor at Point Nemo.
Scientists were also surprised in 1997 to hear one of the loudest underwater sounds ever recorded near Point Nemo, and the mysterious noise was picked up less than 2011 kilometers east of Point Nemo by underwater microphones. Scientists called this sound "The Bloop".
This sound was even louder than a blue whale, leading to speculation that it came from an unknown sea monster, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) determined that it was the sound of giant icebergs cracking and cracking.
Point Nemo Cemetery Spaceships
The All That's Interesting website stated that due to the remoteness of Point Nemo from shipping and maritime trade routes, NASA and other international space agencies have chosen it as an underwater space graveyard for debris falling from above from space.
Expired spaceships and satellites as well as space junk are usually disposed of by dropping back down to Earth, so the scientists needed to choose an area where the risk of infecting a human being would be extremely low.
According to CNN, NASA first used Point Nemo in 1971. Since then, more than 263 pieces of scrap have crashed in the area, including some of the world's greatest spacecraft, such as the Russian space station. Mir, and NASA's first Skylab space station. In the year 2031, when the International Space Station will expire and be out of service, it is expected that the station will fall at this point to be its last headquarters.
Dot Nemo has not been spared from plastic
Although Point Nemo is the most isolated place in the ocean and farthest from land and from humans, it is full of plastic and microplastics. Up to 26 microplastic particles per cubic meter were found in seawater samples collected near the site.
Compared to the South China Sea, whose water contains 357 plastic particles per cubic meter, Point Nemo is not very polluted, but it is polluted nonetheless
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