Fair Isle, United Kingdom

Fair Isle, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 59.5279°, -1.6180°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Fair Isle is the southernmost of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is situated at the approximate midpoint between the southern tip of Mainland, Shetland; and North Ronaldsay, the northernmost of the Orkney Islands; in an area bordering the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean known as the Fair Isle Gap. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Fair Isle, 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 Fair Isle, 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

• R100 North (2023) — R100 North is a domestic submarine cable network within United Kingdom, connecting 31 coastal and island locations including Baile Mòr, Bay of London, Belmont, Burravoe, Crockness, and 26 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.