Here’s The Story Of ‘Point Nemo’, The Dumping Ground Of Spacecrafts On Earth

Here’s The Story Of ‘Point Nemo’, The Dumping Ground Of Spacecrafts On Earth

One place China’s Earth-bound and out-of-control spacelab, Tiangong-1, will probably not hit on Sunday is the forlorn spot in the southern Pacific Ocean where it was supposed to crash.

Officially called an “oceanic pole of inaccessibility,” this watery graveyard for titanium fuel tanks and other high-tech space debris is better known to space junkies as Point Nemo, in honour of Jules Verne’s fictional submarine captain.

Point Nemo is further from land than any other dot on the globe: 2,688 kilometres (about 1,450 miles) from the Pitcairn Islands to the north, one of the Easter Islands to the northwest, and Maher Island — part of Antarctica — to the South.Click Here: Cardiff Blues Store