What name is given to the location in the ocean that is farthest from any land?

"Point Nemo" is officially known as “the oceanic pole of inaccessibility,” or the point in the ocean that is farthest away from land. It's named after captain "Nemo" from the Jules Verne's novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea".

The location is so isolated that the nearest people to "Point Nemo" are actually in space.The astronauts aboard the International Space Station are around 258 mi (415 km) from their home planet at any given time.

Since the inhabited area nearest to "Point Nemo" is more than 1,000 mi (1609 km) away people in space are far nearer to "Point Nemo" than those on land.

On earth with a complex landmass and ocean distribution finding such a point can be difficult. In 1992, survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela located a point in the ocean that was farthest away from any land using a computer program that calculated the coordinates that were the greatest distance from 3 equidistant land coordinates.

This remote oceanic location is 2,688 kilometers (or 1,450 nautical miles) from the nearest land of Ducie Island (Pitcairn Islands) to the north, Motu Nui (Easter Islands) to the northeast, and Maher Island (Antarctica) to the south.

"Point Nemo" has the geographical coordinates of 48°52.6'S 123°23.6'W.

The area is officially known to space agencies as the "South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area". Decommissioned spacecraft are thought to now occupy this "spacecraft cemetery", from satellites to the defunct space station "Mir".