A variety of coordinate locations have been given for this pole. The southern pole of inaccessibility is the point on the Antarctic continent most distant from the Southern Ocean. The old Soviet Pole of Inaccessibility Station, revisited by Team N2i on 19 January 2007 As of February 2021, McNeill said that, as far as he could ascertain, no one had reached the new position of the Northern Pole of Inaccessibility - certainly not from the last landfall across the surface of the ocean and it remains an important scientific transect. Due to constant motion of the pack ice, no permanent structure can exist at this pole. It is over 200 km from the originally accepted position. The new position lies at 85☄8′N 176☉′W, 1,008 km (626 mi) from the three closest landmasses: It is 1,008 km from the nearest land, on Henrietta Island in the De Long Islands, at Arctic Cape on Severnaya Zemlya, and on Ellesmere Island. In 2010 he and his Ice Warrior team were thwarted again by the poor condition of the sea ice. McNeill launched his own, unsuccessful, attempt to reach the new position in 2006, whilst measuring the depth of sea-ice for NASA. This was published as a paper in the Polar Record, Cambridge University Press in 2013. In 2005, explorer Jim McNeill asked scientists from National Snow and Ice Data Center and Scott Polar Research Institute to re-establish the position using modern GPS and satellite technology.

In 1986, an expedition of Soviet polar scientists led by Dmitry Shparo claimed to reach the original position by foot during a polar night. In 1968 Sir Wally Herbert came very close to reaching what was then considered to be the position by dogsled but by his own account, 'Across The Roof Of The World', did not make it due to the flow of sea ice. It is not clear who first defined this point but it may have been Sir Hubert Wilkins, who wished to traverse the Arctic Ocean by aircraft, in 1927. The original position was wrongly believed to lie at 84☀3′N 174★1′W.

The Northern pole of inaccessibility, sometimes known as the Arctic pole, is located on the Arctic Ocean pack ice at a distance farthest from any land mass.

The Farthest Place by E. Barnes