# Where is Point Nemo?

- Source: NOAA Ocean Facts (ocean-facts.noaa.gov), Public domain, NOAA National Ocean Service, Ocean Facts
- Reading level: Grade 5
- Subjects: Places, Ocean
- Topics: point, nemo, island, islands, land, location
- Length: 105 words, about 1 min
- By: NOAA National Ocean Service
- Original: <https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nemo.html>
- Page: <https://sprout.rootsofreason.org/r/noaa-ocean-facts/nemo>
- Open in Sprouts: <https://sprout.rootsofreason.org/?read=noaa-ocean-facts/nemo>

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Point Nemo is the location in the ocean that is **farthest from land**.

Want to get away from it all? You can't do better than a point in the Pacific Ocean popularly known as 'Point Nemo,' named after the famous submarine sailor from Jules Verne's *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea*.

This remote oceanic location is located at coordinates 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W, about 2,688 kilometers from the nearest land—Ducie Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands, to the north; Motu Nui, one of the Easter Islands, to the northeast; and Maher Island, part of Antarctica, to the south.

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## Picture credits

- NOAA National Ocean Service, Public domain (US government work) (<https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nemo.html>)