Its located in the middle of nowhere, and there is certainly no island here just water.
The chosen place must also be far from shipping lanes.
Such a spot in the ocean exist, and geographers call it the oceanic pole of inaccessibility.
This makes Point Nemo and the region around it relatively lifeless an oceanic desert of sort.
In other words, its the ideal place to dump unwanted satellites and space junk.
Between 1971 and 2016, more than 263 recorded space burials had taken place at Point Nemo.
Unmanned cargo resupply vehicles to the International Space Station are routinely brought down here.
The International Space Station.
During deorbit, the Mir hit the atmosphere hard at an altitude of 100 km.
Those high-tech remains are spread out over hundreds and even thousands of kilometer.
And this is why Point Nemo is their chosen spot.
Photo credit:NASA
Sources:Wikipedia/NASA/Wikipedia/Wikipedia/Gizmodo
