Dunnet Head, United Kingdom

Dunnet Head, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 58.6703°, -3.3766°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Dunnet Head is a peninsula on the northern coast of Caithness, Scotland, 10.5 miles (17 km) west of John o' Groats. It terminates at Easter Head, the northernmost point on the island of Great Britain. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Dunnet Head, 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 Dunnet Head, 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

• Northern Lights (2008) — Northern Lights is a submarine cable system operating within United Kingdom, with landing points at Dunnet Head, Skaill. It provides dedicated submarine fiber capacity between these locations, supporting telecommunications, internet access, and enterprise connectivity. Read more →

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