00:00There's a place on Earth so remote.
00:02The closest humans are often the astronauts on the ISS, flying overhead.
00:06It's called Point Nemo, and it's one of Earth's poles of inaccessibility.
00:11In other words, the hardest places anywhere on the planet to reach.
00:15It's here, deep in the South Pacific, roughly halfway between New Zealand and Chile.
00:19But it's not like nothing ever happens here.
00:22Point Nemo is actually a major spacecraft cemetery.
00:25Old satellites and even entire space stations are deliberately sent to crash here.
00:29That's because its extreme remoteness minimizes the risk to people on Earth.
00:33Even the ISS is expected to end its mission year in 2031.
00:37Do you know where any of the other poles of inaccessibility are?
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