Two thousand seven hundred kilometres (2700 km) or for the most seafaring, nearly one thousand four hundred and sixty thousand nautical miles (1458 M). That is more or less the distance it will take the Vendée Globe competitors to go out and buy bread if they have the misfortune of breaking down at this point. In that case, it would be simpler for them to have their bread delivered by the tenants of the International Space Station, who are only 300 to 400 kilometres away.
A thousand thousand of all inhabited land
The Maritime Pole of Inaccessibility which is more commonly known as " nemo point "is the furthest point on the earth's surface from any land. It was calculated in 1992 by Hrvoje Lukatela ...a Croatian-Canadian geodetic engineer. When you sail to this point of the globe, your closest neighbours are Ducie Island, Motu Nui and Maher Island, 2,688 km away. To the north, Ducie . A British atoll that very few ships seem to have approached. Totally uninhabited, so much the worse for the neighbors. Motu Nui near Easter Island won't be much more lively. Equally deserted, the Maher Island ...piece of Antarctica will be in your south, only 2,695 kilometres away. Your closest neighbors live in New Zealand in the North West or Chile ...to the northeast, the first 2,778 kilometers away, the second 3,375 kilometers away from you.
This precise point in the Pacific Ocean, at 48° 52? 32? 32? S, 123° 23? 33? W is also known as the space on the globe where humans allow themselves to crash the satellites which he still has control of, ensuring that they are stranded as far away from inhabited areas as possible. And that no one will worry about the pollution they cause in such remote places.
The least populated area on earth is one of the most polluted.
The 37 million square kilometres ( 34 times the surface area of the hexagon ) in the Nemo Point area are so removed from all food sources for microorganisms that little life develops there. There are only a few bacterial strains, little plankton, and... alas of the pollution in the form of micro-plastics. Humans have managed to pollute even in the almost complete absence of life.
Who will you pass by?
The browsers of the Vendée Globe s, like those of the Volvo Ocean Race will come across this area of the South Pacific on their journey around the globe. A symbolic place, it inspires both fear and reverie. Named after Captain Nemo, commander of the Nautilus in the work of Jules Verne, the Nemo point is close to the fictitious city of R'lyeh in the work of Lovecraft The call of Cthulhu or, again, it is in its exact coordinates that the island of Plastic Beach in the world of the band Gorillaz .
Place of dreams and fantasy
L' inaccessibility observatory The creation-dreaming laboratory proposes to place an island in the shape of a woman's breast at the Nemo point, which will make it possible to detect any trace of life or activity in the area, uploading videos of the place, its non-life and its visitors to the Internet at regular intervals.
When will the Vendée Globe sailors be there?
Point Nemo is close to the Horn. The competitors will cross it a few days before the passage of this mythical cape. It's therefore around the 45th day of the race that the fastest boats will be bowsing there and they will find themselves in a situation of "bumping" isolation the most complete, as far as man can be from any assistance, from any solution in case of damage. Left to their own devices even more than before, it is here that, as Guille Cascante, who followed Didac Costa during his Vendée Globe, explains, "he "... is the only one who can do it must have the right amount of food, clothing and water. You have to know how to live, alone, with the only possible discussion being that of your own voice. "
Invitation to poetry
It is this loneliness that characterizes this dot-person . Dreamlike, Point Nemo is not the goal of the journey, it is the journey. It is the essence, the alpha and the omega, this search for the self that all circumnavigators desire. If there is one place that we should cherish, because we are human, it is undoubtedly this one, the ultimate refuge outside of us, which keeps us as far away as possible from our fellow human beings.
