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    In geography, a pole of inaccessibility is the farthest (or most difficult to reach) location in a given landmass, sea, or other topographical feature...
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    The Pole of Inaccessibility research station (Russian: Полюс недоступности, Polyus nedostupnosti) is a defunct Soviet research station in Kemp Land, Antarctica...
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    The Turner Twins (category Alumni of Loughborough University)
    2016, the twins reached one of the centre points of Australia, otherwise known as the Australian pole of inaccessibility, using paramotors. Adventurers...
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  • crashed. The area is roughly centered on "Point Nemo", the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, the location farthest from any land. The defunct space station...
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    Chris Brown (explorer) (category Alumni of Collingwood College, Durham)
    history to visit all eight of the Earth's Continental Poles of Inaccessibility. To date, he has reached six of the eight poles. Brown holds a Guinness World...
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  • corresponding to the oceanic pole of inaccessibility. The oceanic pole of inaccessibility is also the antipodal area of the human center of population which lies...
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  • proclaims the point as the geographic centre of Canada was added in 1959. The pole of inaccessibility of Canada (the point furthest from any coastline...
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    Henry Cookson (category Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society)
    guide Paul Landry, became the first team to reach the southern pole of Inaccessibility (POI) by foot, the last visitors being a research team using tracked...
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    pole of inaccessibility. On 17 August 1977 the Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika completed the first surface vessel journey to the North Pole...
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    Pole in a six-wheeled vehicle. 2005–2006 – Spanish Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Ramon Larramendi, reached the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility using...
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    first expedition to Pole of Inaccessibility without mechanical assistance Listen to Ernest Shackleton describing his 1908 South Pole Expedition, and read...
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    island of Pohnpei (Ponape), the location of the fictional "Ponape Scripture". Both locations are close to the Pacific pole of inaccessibility (48°52.6′S...
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    Le Commandant Charcot (category Ships of Compagnie du Ponant)
    Commandant Charcot became the first ship to reach the northern pole of inaccessibility, the point within the Arctic Ocean farthest from any landmass,...
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    the nominal surface. The Geomagnetic South Pole, a related point, is the south pole of an ideal dipole model of the Earth's magnetic field that most closely...
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  • The Poles of Cold are the places in the southern and northern hemispheres where the lowest air temperatures have been recorded. In the southern hemisphere...
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    points of Australia are those geographical locations that have been considered to be centre of Australia, as distinct from the extreme points of Australia...
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    101°58′W / 43.36°N 101.97°W / 43.36; -101.97 (Pole of Inaccessibility North America). As of the census of 2020, there were 460 people and 84 households...
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    The north magnetic pole, also known as the magnetic north pole, is a point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic...
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    Reservation of the Oglala Lakota, it is one of two settlements which are closest to the North American continental pole of inaccessibility. The community...
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  • -83.904; 64.890 (Antarctia's Outer Pole of Inaccessibility). This is also known as the South Pole of inaccessibility. Antarctica is the southernmost land...
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    Jim McNeill (category English explorers of North America)
    Ocean for his attempts to reach the North Pole of Inaccessibility. He spent over 170 days during the course of three separate expeditions on Ellesmere Island;...
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    South Pole, at the middle of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Vostok is located near the southern pole of inaccessibility and the south geomagnetic pole, making...
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  • hit. During their journey to the Pole of Inaccessibility (POI), the remotest point of the Antarctic, the expedition of six men, led by Captain Choi Do-hyung...
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  • and continuation of the IGY programme Organisation of the Sovetskaya station at the pole of relative inaccessibility Continuation of tractor-sledge traverses...
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  • American pole of inaccessibility is located at 14°03′S 56°51′W / 14.050°S 56.850°W / -14.050; -56.850 (South American pole of inaccessibility), near...
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    (Continental Pole of Inaccessibility)) 2,645 km (1,644 mi) from the nearest coastline. See Pole of inaccessibility. Geography of Europe Geography of Asia Extreme...
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    Motu Nui (category Islands of Easter Island)
    among the three closest landmasses to Point Nemo, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility. The other two are Ducie Island (Pitcairn Islands) and Maher Island...
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    Graham Gore (category Royal Navy personnel of the Greek War of Independence)
    promotion, but was compelled to seek it by a second voyage to the North Pole." In December 1843, Gore was transferred to the steam frigate HMS Cyclops...
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    coast (Iberian Pole of Inaccessibility) at Otero, Toledo 39°59′N 4°31′W / 39.99°N 4.51°W / 39.99; -4.51 (Iberian Pole of Inaccessibility) Northernmost...
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    and South America to the east. The center of the South Pacific Gyre is the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, the site on Earth farthest from any continents...
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