Point Nemo: The South Pacific Spacecraft Cemetery and the ISS Deorbit Plan

Point Nemo in the South Pacific is the oceanic pole of inaccessibility—the farthest point from land—and serves as the spacecraft cemetery for controlled deorbiting. NASA plans to retire the ISS around 2030 using a dedicated deorbit vehicle to steer wreckage into this remote, international-water zone, though timing and environmental impacts remain under discussion.