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Extreme Geography of the World - Distant and Furthest

Can you answer these questions about Earth extreme points and poles?
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The farthest ocean point from any land is in this ocean
Pacific Ocean
Nickname of that point
Point Nemo
Famously, the closest humans to the above point are those manning this circulating human-made object
International Space Station
Most remote island from other land (hint: an uninhabited dependency of Norway)
Bouvet Island
Most remote inhabited island (hint: a British overseas territory)
Tristan da Cunha
Island where the airport farthest from any other airport is (hint: big stone heads)
Easter Island
Ocean gulf of West Africa where the Equator and Prime Meridian intersect
Gulf of Guinea
The above intersection is considered to be point 0° 0° of the globe and is marked with a permanent buoy, hence has the following nickname
Null Island
A former country that was the first verified to reach the North Pole, which is also the northernmost ocean point
Soviet Union
Southernmost point of open ocean touches this Antarctic ice shelf, the largest in the world
Ross Ice Shelf
Northernmost point on land is part of this autonomous territory of Denmark
Greenland
The northernmost continually inhabited settlement is in this Canadian territory
Nunavut
Southernmost continental point of land outside Antarctica is in this country
Chile
Norwegian explorer, first person to reach the South Pole, where the southernmost continuously manned station is
Roald Amundsen
British South Pole explorer who, with the above Norwegian, is namesake of that station
Robert Scott
A point in this Chinese autonomous region is the farthest you can be on Earth from any ocean water
Xinjiang
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4 Comments
XYU
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Level 62
Mar 23, 2025
Nice one, good idea.
Thisisreal
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Level 90
May 10, 2025
Thanks:)
Murphster45
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Level 97
Aug 2, 2025
Was the USSR the first to reach the North Pole? I understand that there are conflicting accounts as to who reached the Pole, but I believe there were several explorers before the USSR from other countries to reach the Pole.
Thisisreal
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Level 90
Aug 2, 2025
The early 20th century claims of Peary and others are all in doubt.

"The first verified individuals to reach the North Pole on foot was in 1948 by a 24-man Soviet party, part of Aleksandr Kuznetsov's Sever-2 expedition to the Arctic, who flew near to the Pole first before making the final trek to the Pole on foot." - Wikipedia

Added "verified", for clarification.

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