What is the name of the point in the ocean farthest from any land?

The point in the ocean farthest from any land is Point Nemo, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility. It lies in the South Pacific at approximately 48°52.6′S, 123°23.6′W, where the nearest land is about 2,688 kilometres away in every direction.

The three nearest land points are Pandora Islet in the Pitcairn Islands, Motu Nui near Easter Island, and Maher Island near Antarctica. Point Nemo is therefore not an island or a destination, but a calculated location produced by solving the “longest swim” problem: finding the ocean point farthest from any coastline.

Croatian survey engineer Hrvoje Lukatela identified the point in 1992 using digital geographic data. He named it after Captain Nemo from Jules Verne’s novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas; “Nemo” is also Latin for “nobody.” The region is extremely remote, with little regular ship or aircraft traffic. Because it is isolated and sparsely populated, parts of the South Pacific near Point Nemo have also been used as a controlled re-entry zone for retired spacecraft.