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Father and son explain what it was like travelling to most isolated place on Earth

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Published 17:12 24 May 2024 GMT+1

Father and son explain what it was like travelling to most isolated place on Earth

A father and son duo have revealed the 'awful' and 'beautiful' moments of their trip to the most remote location on earth called Point Nemo

Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck

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A father and son who traveled to the most isolated place on Earth have revealed what it was like.

It's a tempting thought. Escaping the constant buzz and claustrophobia of inner city life, the hum of your 9-5 desk job and incessant chatter from colleagues to flee to the most remote place on Earth for some proper peace and quiet. However, one father and son duo have spoken out about what it's really like after making the lengthy trip themselves.

If you don't quite realise just how far away the most isolated place on Earth is from the rest of the globe, well, the nearest neighbors to the location - called Point Nemo - are actually astronauts.

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It measures a whopping 2,688 kilometers or 1,670 miles away from the nearest land.

And earlier this year, father and son duo Chris and Mika Brown decided to travel to Point Nemo and become the first ever people to swim through its specific point.

Chris and Mika Brown decided to travel to Point Nemo (YouTube/ IFLScience)
Chris and Mika Brown decided to travel to Point Nemo (YouTube/ IFLScience)

The Browns traveled to Point Nemo via a vessel called the Hanse Explorer, battling some 'serious weather' conditions such as storms, on top of the threat of hurricanes.

It would certainly take a strong stomach to deal with that amount of time on the water and in an interview with IFL Science, Mika reflected on all that time at sea as pretty 'dreadful'.

As a result of the size of the waves - the boat going 'down eight meters and up eight meters' every 13 seconds for two days, the pair experienced their fair share of sea sickness.

"You wake up, stand up, bang, straight in the toilet being sick," he said.

"I'm not exaggerating when I say you stand up and you need to start walking to the toilet because you're going to be sick. [...] For the next two-and-a-half days when we stood up we threw up straight away. Which was awful."

Thankfully, after three days, the sea sickness subsided - along with the help of some strong sickness tablets - and it took the pair nine-and-a-half days to reach the pole.

Point Nemo is the most remote place on Earth (Google Maps)
Point Nemo is the most remote place on Earth (Google Maps)

Once nearing Point Nemo, the pair then hopped onto Zodiac boats and swum at the point.

Chris described the sea as 'a fantastic blue' color and almost 'iridescen't which was 'very beautiful' to see.

The pair also weren't quite as isolated as they thought they'd be, catching sight of 'quite a few albatrosses' too.

The journey acted as part of Chris' larger quest to travel to all of the 'Poles of Inaccessibility'.

A pole of inaccessibility is 'the point that's furthest from the ocean in any direction, and Point Nemo is the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility, which is the point furthest from land in any direction,' he explained.

And Chris has two more to tick off - Eurasia and the northern pole, although, Mika was quick to note now that he's down the two most 'extreme ones' he's 'retired'.

Featured Image Credit: Google Maps/@IFL Science/YouTube

Topics: Parenting, Travel, World News, Nature, Science

Poppy Bilderbeck
Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck is a Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible and is such a crisp fanatic the office has been forced to release them in batches.

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