The pole of inaccessibility marks a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features which could provide access. The term is a geographic construct, not an actual physical phenomenon, and is of interest mostly to explorers and conspiracy theorists. Map of the Earth ( Medium) ( Large 2 MB) Table of geography, hydrography, and navigation, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... See also explorations, sea explorers, astronaut, conquistador, travelogue, the History of Science and Technology and Biography. ... A conspiracy theory is a theory that defies common historical or current understanding of events, under the claim that those events are the result of manipulations by two or more individuals or various secretive powers or conspiracies. ...

• Northern Pole of Inaccessibility (84°03′N 174°51′W). Located on the Arctic Ocean pack ice at a distance farthest from any land mass. It is 661 km (411 statute miles) from the North Pole, 1453 km (903 mi) north of Barrow, Alaska, and equidistant from the closest landmasses, Ellesmere Island and Franz-Josef Land, 1094 km (680 mi) away. It was reached by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1927 by aircraft. Due to the constant motion of the pack ice, no permanent structure exists at the pole.

• Southern Pole of Inaccessibility (85°50′S 65°47′E). A spot on Antarctica at a point most distant from the surrounding ocean. It is located 463 km (288 statute miles) from the South Pole. The surface elevation is 3718 m (12,198 ft). It was reached in 1957 by a Soviet Antarctic Expedition for International Geophysical Year research work: see Pole of inaccessibility (Antarctic research station). Today a building still remains at this site, marked by a statue of Vladimir Lenin, and is protected as a historical site. Note that there are several possible definitions [1], depending on whether the "coast" is measured to the grounding line, or to the ice shelves.

• Pacific Pole of Inaccessibility, also called Point Nemo (48°50′S 123°20′W) is the place in the ocean that is farthest from land. It lies in the South Pacific Ocean, 2688 km (1670 mi or 1451 NM) from the nearest lands: Ducie Island (part of the Pitcairn Islands) in the north, Motu Nui (part of the Easter Islands) in the north-east, and Maher Island (off the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica) in the south. Chatham Island lies further west, and Southern Chile in the east.

• Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility (46°17′N 86°40′E) the place on land that is farthest from the ocean. It lies in northern China and is 2645 km (1645 mi) from the nearest coastline. It is located approximately 320 km (200 mi) from the city of Ürümqi, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China, in the Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert. The precise geographical point was reached on 27 June 1986 by Nicholas Crane and Dr Richard Crane.

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See also

• pole
• North Pole
• South Pole
• Extreme points of the world

The North Pole is the northernmost point on the Earth. ... Location of the South Pole in the Antarctic continent. ... This is a list of lists of extreme points of the world, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other locations on the landmasses, continents or countries. ...

External links

• Point Nemo