I’ve just come across a rather wonderful view on Google Earth. If you search for Atoll Pinaki, and zoom out, you will find that there’s virtually no land visible. I kept on zooming further and further out, thinking that some land must appear, until the whole globe was visible. This must be the only point on the earth that this could happen.
(OK - there’s bits at the edges. But not much.)
Looks like New Zealand is the closest major bit of land. I did it the other way, I rotated Google Earth until I could see the least amount of land, then zoomed in and wallah! there’s Pinaki.
I highly recommend the BBC documentary series South Pacific. Apart from the gorgeous cinematography, you really get the sense of how vast the pacific ocean is and how isolated some islands are. There’s islands where the closest dry land can be thousands of miles away.