The Antarctic Pole of Inaccessibility is the point on the Antarctic continent that is farthest in all directions from the surrounding seas.
Sources
- Pole of Inaccessibility | Arctic, Remote & Isolated | Britannica (britannica.com)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/polar-record/article/finding-antarcticas-pole-of-inaccessibility/0B60DD5B8B675CA16812A2250B3E3547 (cambridge.org)
- https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/publication/finding-antarcticas-pole-of-inaccessibility/ (bas.ac.uk)
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