3000 miles off the coast of New Zealand, Point Nemo is so far from land that the closest humans are often the astronauts on board the International Space Station. It's precisely this remoteness that explains why the ISS will end its days here.
Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Three thousand miles off the coast of New Zealand and 2,000 miles north of Antarctica, Point Nemo is so far from land that the closest humans are often the astronauts on board the International Space Station -- that orbits 227 nautical miles above Earth.
It's precisely this remoteness that explains why the ISS, once it's retired in 2030, will end its days here, plummeting to Earth to join other decommissioned space stations, satellites and space debris. This is the world's space graveyard. Spacefaring nations have been dumping their junk in the area around Point Nemo, named after Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's novel"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea," since the 1970s.
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