Landing Point · BS Bahamas
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network (BDSNi) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-07-13 through 2026-07-13 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 2 | 111.5 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 2 | 407.6 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 2 | 242.2 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 182.1 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 2 | 131.0 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 2 | 141.0 ms |
Governors Harbor, Bahamas is a submarine cable landing point in the Bahamas. One international cable system comes ashore here, and together they reach 1 other countries.
Most of the 1 systems here are domestic; the exception reaches Haiti, making Governors Harbor a stepping stone that carries the region's traffic off Bahamas's national grid toward the wider network.
Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network (BDSNi) (2,735 km and in service since 2006). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.
A single system lands here, so this point is a genuine dependency rather than a redundant one. Because these systems share the same short stretch of coast and shore infrastructure, a localized event at the landing zone can reach far more capacity than the cable count alone suggests. GeoCables tracks each of these systems individually for exactly this reason.
GeoCables watches these systems continuously rather than describing them once. Since 2026-03-10 we have logged 130 route anomalies across 73 cable systems worldwide. None of the systems landing here has triggered a route anomaly in that window, a stability signal in its own right for a hub of this size. This section updates automatically the moment that changes, as it already has for the 73 other systems flagged across our coverage.
The largest access networks in the Bahamas sit behind this coastal capacity: Cable Bahamas (62.4% of users), Bahamas Telecommunications Corporation (31.1% of users) and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (11.8% of users). See the full national picture for Bahamas.
This landing point is part of a wider shoreline of connectivity. Within roughly 200 kilometres, the coast also hosts Current (60 km away, 1 cable system), Rock Sound (92 km away, 1 cable system), Nassau (112 km away, 3 cable systems), Cat Island (114 km away, 2 cable systems) and Caves Point (123 km away, 1 cable system). Each of these sites brings its own cables ashore, and together they define how much independent capacity, and how much redundancy, this stretch of the Bahamas really has: if one landing fails or a cable needs maintenance, traffic can often be carried through a neighbour.
In short, Governors Harbor, Bahamas carries international traffic for the Bahamas across 1 independent cable system reaching 1 country on 1 continent, and GeoCables monitors each of them in real time.
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