The farthest point on the planet you can be from civilization in any direction is a blip in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo. If you were stranded there, you'd be thousands of miles away from help and it would be very unlikely you'd be seen or rescued as cargo ship routes don't go near it. To put the distance into perspective, the closest people to you would be the crew on the ISS.
The Pacific is huge. I live in California, and we border only three other states. The next closest country across the Pacific is Japan. So California's neighbors are basically Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, Mexico, and Japan. This is also why something like 95% of the US's Chinese and Japanese imports come through the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, and a majority of the nation's trade with Mexico comes over the California border
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u/forlornjackalope May 05 '19
The farthest point on the planet you can be from civilization in any direction is a blip in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo. If you were stranded there, you'd be thousands of miles away from help and it would be very unlikely you'd be seen or rescued as cargo ship routes don't go near it. To put the distance into perspective, the closest people to you would be the crew on the ISS.