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Point Nemo sits so far from any coastline that the closest humans to it are often the astronauts aboard the International Space Station passing overhead, not anyone standing on land. - Space Daily

Point Nemo sits so far from any coastline that the closest humans to it are often the astronauts aboard the International Space Station passing overhead, not anyone standing on land. - Space Daily

Point Nemo, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, lies more than 2,688 km from the nearest (uninhabited) land. When the ISS passes overhead at about 400 km, its crew is often the closest humans. The same emptiness makes it the chosen graveyard for deorbited sp…

There is a spot in the South Pacific so far from any coastline that, when the International Space Station passes overhead, the astronauts on board are often the nearest human beings to it. The crew s… [+3747 chars]

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