Goonhilly Downs, United Kingdom

Goonhilly Downs, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 50.0248°, -5.1745°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Goonhilly Downs is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) that forms a raised plateau in the central western area of the Lizard peninsula in southern Cornwall, England. It is one of 229 English national nature reserves designated by Natural England with an area of almost 1,270 hectares. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Goonhilly Downs, United Kingdom, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Jersey. 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 Goonhilly Downs, 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

• UK-Channel Islands-8 (1994) — UK-Channel Islands-8 is a point-to-point submarine cable linking United Kingdom and Jersey. Landing at Goonhilly Downs, St. Ouens Bay, 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.