There is a spot in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,688 kilometres from the nearest land in every direction, where more than 263 decommissioned spacecraft lie on the ocean floor — and the closest humans to it are usually astronauts passing 400 kilometres overhead

Point Nemo is not an island, a buoy or an official disposal marker. Three pieces of land define the distanceNOAA places Point Nemo at 48 degrees 52.6 minutes south, 123 degrees 23.6 minutes west. In geography, Point Nemo is the oceanic pole of inaccessibility. The spacecraft cemetery is a region, not a pinSpaceflight articles often use Point Nemo as shorthand for the South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area, or SPOUA. This is why diagrams showing dead spacecraft piled beneath the Point Nemo coordinate are misleading.