Good sailing on abating seas and fair Northwesterly winds.

A mysterious figure, scientific visionary, individualist, introverted, taciturn. He shuns the company of other people by roaming the depths of the oceans and avoids land except desert islands and remote places. He is Captain Nemo, aboard his makeshift submarine Nautilus. A main character of Jules Verne, who between 1869 and 1870 publishes what will become one of the literary classics of all time, “20.000 Leagues Under the Sea”.

In 1992, Nemo inspired the Croatian-Canadian survey and geodetic engineer Hrvoje Lukatela to name the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, a location in the ocean farthest away from land, which he calculated using geospatial data and computer software.

48°52.6′ south latitude 123°23.6′ west longitude. More than 3000 meters of water under the keel. About 2700 kilometres to the nearest lands. Remotest of all the ocean’s surface places, a position far off the beaten tracks in the South Pacific.

As the most isolated place in the ocean, beyond the jurisdiction of any country, it has been chosen as the official graveyard for space junk. Debris disposal area where to crash spacecraft materials such as retired satellites and discarded cargo.

The perfect location for the mythical R’lyeh, sunken city built in aeons past by entities from the dark stars, where the cosmic entity Cthulhu lies trapped, awaiting, dreaming. H.P. Lovecraft's coordinates for his fabled city described in the cosmic horror novel published in 1928, “The Call of Cthulhu”, sit remarkably close to the actual Point Nemo.

Gloomy weather. Grey skies. Drizzle and rain. As it can’t be any other way sailing in an area with such background tales. Not even many seabirds fly these relatively nutrient-poor waters of the South Pacific Gyre, scarce on organic materials floating and drifting in the surroundings.

The Europa and her crew roam the oceans too. She loves remote sailing routes and faraway destinations. It has been over 100 years that she has sailed away on the Seven Seas, that she has visited remote whereabouts in the oceans. It can’t get more remote at sea than where she sails today. Barely 160 nautical miles north of her position lies Point Nemo, after having sailed 137 nm in the last day. Ahead, 2059 to yet another legendary destination amongst sailors, Cape Horn.