Welcome to lonely Point Nemo, Earth's dumping ground for derelict space junk
Point Nemo, the loneliest and most remote expanse of ocean on Earth, is where spacecraft go when they die.
This spread of water, 34 times larger than France, has been used as a dumping ground for space vehicles since 1971. An estimated 263 decommissioned spacecraft, including the Russian space station Mir, have been deliberately brought down and sunk here.
In 2031, the International Space Station, in orbit since 1998, will join them. It will rest about 13,000 feet down, deeper than the wreck of Titanic.
The South Pacific region, the farthest point in the ocean from any land, is named after Captain Nemo, the captain of the submarine Nautilus from the 1870 Jules Verne story “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.” Nemo is Latin for “no one” or “nobody.”
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