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===History===
Point Nemo was first identified by Croatian survey engineer {{ill|Hrvoje Lukatela|fr}} in 1992.<ref name=Plastic/> In 2022, Lukatela recalculated the coordinates of Point Nemo using OpenStreetMap data and Google Maps data in order to compare those results with the coordinates he first calculated using [[Digital Chart of the World]] data.<ref name="Point Nemo, revisited"/>

The point and the areas around it have attracted literary and cultural attention, and the point has become known as Point Nemo, which is Latin for "nobody" and a reference to [[Jules Verne]]'s [[Captain Nemo]] from the 1870 novel ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]]''.<ref name="pointnemo" /><ref name="Where is Point Nemo"/> The novel was a childhood favorite of Lukatela's, and such, he named the point after Captain Nemo.<ref name="Where is Point Nemo"/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lukatela.com/pointnemo/ | title=Point Nemo |access-date= |website=lukatela.com|first= Hrvoje |last =Lukatela|date = 2022 }}</ref> The general area plays a major role in the 1928 short story "[[The Call of Cthulhu]]" by [[H. P. Lovecraft]], as holding the location of the fictional city of [[R'lyeh]], although this story was written 66 years before the identification of Point Nemo.<ref name="pointnemo" />

The wider area is also known as a "[[spacecraft cemetery]]", because hundreds of decommissioned satellites, space stations, and other spacecraft have been made to fall there upon re-entering the atmosphere, to lessen the risk of hitting inhabited locations<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Stirone|first=Shannon|date=13 June 2016|title=This Is Where the International Space Station Will Go to Die|url=http://www.popsci.com/this-is-where-international-space-station-will-go-to-die|magazine=[[Popular Science]]|access-date=10 November 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160616122323/http://www.popsci.com/this-is-where-international-space-station-will-go-to-die|archive-date=16 June 2016}}</ref> or [[Sea lane|maritime traffic]]. The International Space Station (ISS) is planned to crash into Point Nemo in 2031.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60246032 |title=International Space Station to crash down to Earth in January 2031 |last=|first= |date=3 February 2022 |publisher=[[BBC News]]|access-date=3 February 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/faq-the-international-space-station-2022-transition-plan | title=FAQ: The International Space Station 2022 Transition Plan | newspaper=NASA | date=11 February 2022 | last1=Bock | first1=Michael }}</ref>