R'lyeh
Sign in to saveupright=1.35|thumb|The location of R'lyeh given by Lovecraft was in the southern Pacific Ocean. August Derleth placed it at about . Both locations are close to the Pacific Pole of inaccessibility#Oceanic pole of inaccessibility|pole of inaccessibility or "Nemo" point, , a point in the ocean farthest from any land mass. '''R'lyeh' is a fictional lost city that was first mentioned in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in Weird Tales'' in February 1928. R'lyeh is a sunken city in the South Pacific and the prison of the entity called Cthulhu.
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upright=1.35|thumb|The location of R'lyeh given by Lovecraft was in the southern Pacific Ocean. August Derleth placed it at about . Both locations are close to the Pacific Pole of inaccessibility#Oceanic pole of inaccessibility|pole of inaccessibility or "Nemo" point, , a point in the ocean farthest from any land mass. '''R'lyeh' is a fictional lost city that was first mentioned in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in Weird Tales'' in February 1928. R'lyeh is a sunken city in the South Pacific and the prison of the entity called Cthulhu.
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