Point Nemo, the farthest location from land, has been polluted by plastic.The remote spot is roughly 1,700 miles away from inhabited land.
Even the ocean area farthest from land has become polluted with plastic waste, researchers say.
Nicknamed "Point Nemo," the Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility sits in the Southern Ocean, roughly 1,700 miles away from inhabited land. Conservationists discovered taken from a nearby area, Sky News reports.
In addition to the pollution, the ocean floor of the surrounding area is flecked with , according to The Guardian.
The discovery was made after two yachts involved in Volvo’s round-the-world ocean race passed through the area, equipped with filtration systems to collect samples of the seawater, according to Sky News.
(MORE: )
Researchers at a German laboratory studied the samples and found they included , Euronews reports.
andthey can be found in our toothpastes, soaps, facewashesand cleaning products. These plastics never really go away because they can last for decades, fragmenting over and over again into smaller pieces.
"Even if I put a plastic bottle in the River Thames, maybe at some point I will find microplastics from this bottle down in South Africa,” GEOMAR Institute for Ocean Research Kiel researcher Dr. Doren Gutekunst told Sky News.
Turn the Tide On Plastic, one of the ships that collected samples, has joined Sky Ocean Rescue in an effort to and inform people on actions they can take to help.
"One of the things we've really succeeded in is communicating our message of changing people's behavior and attitude to single-use plastics, and it's something we genuinely believe in and are passionate about,” sailor Dee Caffari, who was the skipper of the ship during the race, told SkyNews.
Point Nemo was first discovered by engineer Hrvoje Lukatela in 1992.Not even marine life drifts into Point Nemo, as it’s situated in the South Pacific Gyre, one of the ocean’s most lifeless locations.
The only people that can get anywhere close to the spot are floating more than 200 miles above the water's surface on the International Space Station.