Aikerness Bay, United Kingdom

Aikerness Bay, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 59.1180°, -3.0951°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Aikerness Bay is an embayment of Eynhallow Sound on the northwest coast of Mainland Orkney, Scotland. The headlands of Point of Hellia at the east and Grit Ness at the west form the limit points of Aikerness Bay. The beach along the southern boundary of Aikerness Bay is known as the Sands of Evie. At the eastern end of Aikerness Bay is Gurness, an Iron Age broch. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

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

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Aikerness Bay, United Kingdom in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System (2014) — BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System is a domestic submarine cable network within United Kingdom, connecting 40 coastal and island locations including Achnaba, Aikerness Bay, Ardbeg Point, Ardgour, Ardmair, and 35 more. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →

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