Esquimalt, BC, Canada

Esquimalt, BC, Canada is a submarine cable landing point in Canada (coordinates 48.4301°, -123.4146°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Canada's international connectivity infrastructure.

The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the New Songhees 1A Indian reserve and the town of View Royal, and to the north by a narrow inlet of water called the Gorge, across which is the district municipality of Saanich. It is almost tangential to Esquimalt 1 Indian Reserve near Admirals Road. It is one of the 13 municipalities of Greater Victoria and part of the Capital Regional District. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Esquimalt, BC, Canada, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Canada, United States. 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 Esquimalt, BC, Canada 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

• AmeriCan-1 (1999) — AmeriCan-1 is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Canada and United States. Landing at Cordova Bay, Esquimalt, Oak Harbor, Point Roberts, Seattle, 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.