Discover the most isolated place in the world: Ponto Nemo

We all live in days when everything seems annoying and the desire is to stay away from any social life. At first you want to stay in bed with the door locked, but still someone can come and knock on the door. The best way to isolate yourself would be to go to one of the most inhospitable places on earth, but where exactly?

When we talk about it, you may remember the Pixar movie, but Nemo Point is one of the most inaccessible places on all of planet Earth. Its name actually comes from Julio Verne's classic book, "20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, " in which the main character is called Captain Nemo.

Middle of nowhere

Despite being called a "Point", there is no marking or piece of land. And he's not the only one of his kind in the world - he keeps company with places in the middle of China and Antarctica.

During the Volvo Ocean Race, the oldest race in the world, which takes place every 3 years, sailors pass near Nemo Point as they travel between Auckland, New Zealand, and Itajaí, on the Santa Catarina coast. On another occasion, the fastest boat that ever arrived at the site took just over 15 days, and by the time the human closest to them was at the International Space Station.

Approaching it, the most accessible land sites are a mere 2, 688 kilometers away, far more than the 416 kilometers above sea level that the Space Station orbits the Earth. Emergency stopping options are the Piedmont Islands, British Overseas Territory, Easter Island, Moto Nui, or Antarctic Maher Island. Among the options, the best would be the Chilean island, as it has more structure.

The exact location was determined in 1992, when Croatian-Canadian engineer Hrvoje Lukatela used a geospatial program capable of tracing the farthest point between three coasts.

Sad reality

Because of its isolation, the region is often used as a space “dump” where several countries seek to shed their space debris, as the chances of hitting a person or a ship are slim.

Coupled with this, the Point lies in the middle of the South Pacific gyrus, characterized by a huge ocean current that runs between Australia, South America, the equator and the strong Antarctic circumpolar current. These conditions mean that there is no water flow in the region, leaving the temperature around 7 ° C. The steep distance from dry land prevents even the wind from bringing organic matter to the site, making Ponto one of the least biologically active regions on the planet.

Unfortunately, a 2013 study found a large amount of trash in the center of the South Pacific gyrus, 2, 500 kilometers from Ponto Nemo. The current imprisons the material, which is basically made up of plastic loaded from coastal regions or released by ships, which ends up fragmented into small pieces.

Situations like this should alert authorities to the problem of pollution in the oceans. If our debris was able to reach such an isolated point, measures to consciously dispose of trash needed to be taken so that we could live in harmony with nature.

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