Khark Island, Iran

Khark Island, Iran is a submarine cable landing point in Iran (coordinates 29.2458°, 50.3121°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Iran's international connectivity infrastructure.

Kharg Island, also spelled Khark Island and often referred to as the "Forbidden Island", is a continental island of Iran in the Persian Gulf. The island is 25 kilometres (16 mi) off the coast of Iran and 660 kilometres (410 mi) northwest of the Strait of Hormuz. Administered by the adjacent coastal Bushehr Province, Kharg Island provides a sea port for the export of up to 90% of Iran's oil products, as well as supplying storage for up to 30 million barrels of oil. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Khark Island, Iran, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Iran, Kuwait. 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 Khark Island, Iran 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

• Kuwait-Iran (2005) — Kuwait-Iran is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Iran and Kuwait. Landing at Ganaveh, Khark Island, Kuwait City, Soroosh Platform, 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.