Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Aberdeen, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 57.1538°, -2.1068°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Aberdeen is a port city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous Scottish city. Historically, Aberdeen was within the historic county of Aberdeenshire, but is now separate from the council area of Aberdeenshire. Aberdeen City Council is one of Scotland's 32 local authorities. Aberdeen has a population of 198,590 (2020) for the main urban area and 220,690 (2020) for the wider settlement including outlying localities, making it the United Kingdom's 39th most populous built-up area. Aberdeen has a long, sandy coastline and features an oceanic climate, with cool summers and mild, rainy winters. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Aberdeen, United Kingdom, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Norway. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 1 monitoring event on cables serving Aberdeen, United Kingdom in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Tampnet North (1999) — Tampnet North is a point-to-point submarine cable linking United Kingdom and Norway. Landing at Aberdeen, Kårstø, Øygarden, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.