Fort Dauphin, Madagascar

Fort Dauphin, Madagascar is a submarine cable landing point in Madagascar (coordinates -25.0225°, 46.9854°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Madagascar's international connectivity infrastructure.

Fort-Dauphin is a city on the southeast coast of Madagascar. It is the capital of the Anosy Region and of the Taolagnaro District. It has been a port of local importance since the early 1500s. A new port, the Ehoala Port was built in 2006–2009. Fort-Dauphin was the first French settlement in Madagascar. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, international traffic can reach 3 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Mauritius, Réunion, South Africa. 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 Fort Dauphin, Madagascar 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

• Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System (METISS) (2021) — Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System (METISS) is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Mauritius, Madagascar, Réunion, South Africa. Its 4 landing points at Baie du Tombeau, Fort Dauphin, Le Port, Umbogintwini bridge the networks of Indian Ocean, East Africa, Southern Africa, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →

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