#39: Secret Coordinates
If you’ve seen the new Top Gun: Maverick, you probably remember the very dramatic plotline of the movie. The film’s protagonists must destroy a super-illegal uranium facility in a super-secret, unnamed country. A film plot like this is obviously tricky. How can Hollywood create an “evil” enemy country without causing a real-life diplomatic kerfuffle?
The answer is to make it up! The coordinates for the airbase in the mysteriously unnamed enemy country actually correspond to Point Nemo. Point Nemo, named after Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea character, is a point in the ocean that is furthest from land. The point is located between South America and New Zealand, making it a pretty diplomatic movie choice since it doesn’t reference any specific country!