Aitutaki, Cook Islands

Aitutaki, Cook Islands is a submarine cable landing point in Cook Islands (coordinates -18.8257°, -159.7749°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Cook Islands's international connectivity infrastructure.

Aitutaki, also traditionally known as Araʻura and Utataki, is the second most-populated island in the Cook Islands, after Rarotonga. It is an "almost atoll", with fifteen islets in a lagoon adjacent to the main island. Total land area is 18.05 km2 (6.97 sq mi), and the lagoon has an area of between 50 and 74 km2. A major tourist destination, Aitutaki is the second most visited island of the Cook Islands archipelago. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Aitutaki, Cook Islands, international traffic can reach 4 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue, Samoa. 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 Aitutaki, Cook Islands 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

• Manatua (2020) — Manatua is a regional submarine cable serving 4 countries: Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, French Polynesia. With landing points at Aitutaki, Alofi, Apia, Rarotonga, To'ahotu, and 1 more, it strengthens regional internet resilience and provides route diversity — crucial when nearby cables experience faults. Read more →

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