Perhaps the most amazing fact regarding this conditional point in the World Ocean is the results of calculations by the Croatian engineer Hvoje Lukatel, who actually calculated this ocean pole of inaccessibility.
Lucatela calculated that point Nemo is "closer to people in space" than on Earth - to the orbit of the "populated" International Space Station (ISS) 400 km, and to the inhabited island (Chilean Easter Island) - almost 7 times more. On our planet, in this radius of land with people is nowhere else.
Where is it at all
The popular scientific geographic publication National Geographic gives detailed coordinates of the Nemo point (by the way, this is what the “discoverer” of Lukatel called it in 1992). This is in the South Pacific Ocean, point Nemo is actually the most remote geographical coordinate of the World Ocean, not only from the inhabited places of the Earth, but also from land in principle - over 2.6 thousand kilometers to each of the nearest two islands (Maher and Motu- Nui) and Ducie Atoll. All three of these points on the Earth's overseas surface are uninhabited.
Did they know about it even before the opening?
Incredible, but true: the famous American mystic writer, author of works that literary scholars define as an independent subgenre of "Lovecraft Horrors", Howard Lovecraft in his story "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926) as the geographical coordinates of the sunken island-city where fictional terrible events, cites data on latitude and longitude very close to the really existing mystical point Nemo.
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Where does the roar come from?
In 1997, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that in the area of point Nemo, its experts recorded a mysterious noise, a sound that later became known as "Bloop" ("roar"). World media immediately picked up and replicated this sensation. The BBC reported that the noise was even more piercing than the subsonic voice of a blue whale.
However, after conducting more detailed research, NOAA gave a very prosaic explanation for this mysterious phenomenon - it was the sound of cracking and breaking ocean ice, generating powerful low-frequency sounds.
Cemetery of the lost ships
According to the BBC, point Nemo "by default" is used by many world space agencies as an area of flooding of old spacecraft and their remains. Its geographical location, great distance from human habitats, are very convenient in terms of environmental safety of such disposal. According to experts, at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in the region of the Pole of Inaccessibility now lies from 100 to 250 skeletons of these objects, which have found their last refuge here since the mid-70s of the last century.
Somewhere in these places in March 2001, what was left of the unique Russian orbital station Mir, which had operated for the USSR (since February 1986), was also flooded.
American professor Alice Gorman from Flinders University, specializing in space archeology (there is such a branch of science), examines the remains of fallen aircraft in terms of their impact on the environment and interaction with it. She believes that part of the unburned in the atmosphere remnants of the "Peace" fell on the beaches of numerous Fiji islands, and the rest sank in the ocean.
"Yeti Crab" lives there
The fact that a previously unknown species of crab was discovered in the area of point Nemo in 2005 was reported by American oceanographer Stephen D'Hondt from the University of Rhode Island. This is Kiwa hirsuta (it is also called "yeti crab" - "a crab that cannot be, but it exists") - a 15-centimeter decapod crustacean that lives in the region of hydrothermal vents in the South Pacific Ocean. The first (and so far the only one to date) sample (male) was taken from a depth of more than 2 km.
Journalists immediately bombarded Stephen D'Hondt with questions if it was possible to find the monsters described by Lovecraft on the ocean floor at Nemo. D'Hondt said it was unlikely. But the fact that the water area of this oceanic pole of inaccessibility can provide the scientific world with any more discoveries is a fact.
Nikolay Syromyatnikov