Angoon, AK, United States

Angoon, AK: Submarine Cable Landing Point

Angoon is a city located on Admiralty Island in Alaska, United States. As a coastal community in the remote southeastern region of the state, it serves as a landing point for submarine cable infrastructure connecting parts of Alaska. One submarine cable lands at Angoon, the Alaska United Southeast (AU-SE), linking the city to the broader regional cable network along the Alaskan coast.

With a single cable landing, Angoon represents a focused point of submarine cable connectivity within the United States domestic network. The Alaska United Southeast cable operates entirely within the United States, making Angoon part of an intra-national corridor that serves the connectivity needs of communities in southeastern Alaska.

Cables Landing at Angoon, AK

Alaska United Southeast (AU-SE) is a submarine cable measuring 626 km in length, with a Ready for Service (RFS) year of 2008. The cable connects landing points entirely within the United States, routing along the southeastern Alaskan coast. It provides domestic submarine cable connectivity to Angoon and the other communities it serves along its route. The cable is currently listed in draft status.

Regional Context

Within the United States submarine cable landscape, which spans 113 cables across 160 landing points, Angoon ranks in the top 69% of domestic landing points by cable count. Compared to busier United States landing points such as Boca Raton, FL, and San Juan, PR, each hosting eight cables, or Hermosa Beach, CA, and Kapolei, HI, each hosting five, Angoon is a smaller, single-cable landing point serving a specific regional purpose in Alaska rather than acting as a major international hub.

Network Role

Angoon functions as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub, with the Alaska United Southeast cable providing domestic submarine connectivity along a 626 km route within the United States. The cable's entirely domestic character reflects the practical reality of serving remote island and coastal communities in southeastern Alaska, where submarine cables serve as the primary means of establishing reliable fixed telecommunications links.

Within the broader United States submarine cable graph, Angoon represents the type of landing point that extends connectivity into geographically isolated communities that are not reachable by overland cable infrastructure. Its place in the network highlights the role that shorter, domestically focused submarine cables play alongside the longer international routes that dominate the overall United States cable portfolio.