Landing Point · VI Virgin Islands (U.S.)
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Red Hook-Little Saint James | Active |
| St. Thomas-St. Croix System | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-06-22 through 2026-06-25 - live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 2 | 185.7 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 2 | 170.9 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 2 | 205.7 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 168.9 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 162.5 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 1 | 175.3 ms |
Great Bay is a submarine cable landing point located in the United States Virgin Islands, a Caribbean island territory in the northeastern Lesser Antilles. Two submarine cables make landfall at Great Bay, connecting it to other points within the Virgin Islands (U.S.) archipelago. Both cables serve an intra-territorial function, linking islands and coastal locations that form part of the broader U.S. Virgin Islands infrastructure.
The two cables landing at Great Bay — the St. Thomas-St. Croix System and the Red Hook-Little Saint James — are exclusively intra-territorial connections, with all endpoints situated within the Virgin Islands (U.S.). This positions Great Bay as a landing point focused on inter-island and local connectivity rather than intercontinental or international corridors.
The St. Thomas-St. Croix System spans 183 kilometers and reached ready-for-service status in 1997. All endpoints of this cable are located within the Virgin Islands (U.S.), making it an entirely domestic system linking different parts of the U.S. Virgin Islands. It was the first submarine cable to reach operational status in the Virgin Islands (U.S.) and remains one of the longer systems serving the territory given the average cable length across the islands.
The Red Hook-Little Saint James cable is a short system measuring just 5 kilometers, which reached ready-for-service status in 2005. Like the St. Thomas-St. Croix System, all of its endpoints are located within the Virgin Islands (U.S.), serving as a highly localized inter-island link within the archipelago. At 5 kilometers, it is among the shortest submarine cable systems operating in the region.
Among the ten submarine cable landing points in the Virgin Islands (U.S.), Great Bay ranks in the top 90 percent by cable count, hosting two cables. St. Croix leads the territory with five cables, while Great Bay sits alongside the majority of landing points — including Banana Bay, Brewer's Bay, Butler Bay, Christiansted, and Flamingo Bay — each of which hosts a smaller number of cables. Great Bay's two-cable presence gives it a modest but notable position within the territory's submarine cable network.
Great Bay functions as a two-cable terminus within the intra-territorial submarine cable network of the Virgin Islands (U.S.). Both systems landing here connect points exclusively within the archipelago, enabling inter-island data and communications links between different parts of the territory. The Red Hook-Little Saint James cable provides an extremely short-range local connection, while the St. Thomas-St. Croix System bridges a considerably greater intra-territorial distance of 183 kilometers.
Within the regional submarine cable graph of the Virgin Islands (U.S.), Great Bay represents one of the more active landing points by cable count, supporting the layered approach the territory has taken to ensuring connectivity across its dispersed island geography through dedicated short and medium-range submarine links.
View actual submarine cable routing from Great Bay, Virgin Islands (U.S.) - with backbone nodes, distance calculations, and latency estimates
Open Calculator →