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A feature article by Cullen Murphy in The Atlantic<\/em>\u2019s November 2024 issue<\/a> [Apple News +<\/a>] explores the oceanic pole of inaccessibility<\/a>\u2014the point on the globe furthest from any land. Known as Point Nemo, it\u2019s at a spot in the South Pacific nearly 2,700 km from the nearest island where the weather is beyond fierce, the water so lacking in nutrients it\u2019s a biological desert, and the closest human beings are often the astronauts in the International Space Station, which passes 250 km overhead every day. (That\u2019s not a coincidence, by the way: Point Nemo will eventually be the ISS\u2019s final resting place. The surrounding oceans have become a spaceship graveyard, a preferred target for controlled deorbits, precisely because they\u2019re so far from land.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A feature article by Cullen Murphy in The Atlantic\u2019s November 2024 issue [Apple News +] explores the oceanic pole of inaccessibility\u2014the point on the globe furthest from any land. Known as Point Nemo, it\u2019s at… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[1700,1701],"class_list":["post-1834495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-oceans","tag-point-nemo","tag-point-of-inaccessibility","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1817210,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/the-deepest-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1834495,"position":0},"title":"The Deepest Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 July 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Out today from HarperCollins (and Goose Lane in Canada): The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World\u2019s Oceans by Laura Trethewey. \u201cScientists, investors, militaries, and private explorers are competing in this epic venture to obtain an accurate reading of this vast terrain and understand its contours and environment.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Oceans"","block_context":{"text":"Oceans","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/oceans\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Book cover: The Deepest Map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/trethewey-deepest-map-199x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1524,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/monterey-bay-area-seafloor-maps-released\/","url_meta":{"origin":1834495,"position":1},"title":"Monterey Bay Area Seafloor Maps Released","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"13 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"New seafloor maps of the Monterey Bay area have been released as part of the California Seafloor Mapping Program. 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