Landing Point · AU Australia
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Kangaroo Island 2 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-05-10 through 2026-06-02 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 283.8 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 266.2 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 0.2 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 92.8 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 390.5 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 1 | 298.0 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 1 | 284.4 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 1 | 311.2 ms |
Kingscote is a town on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, situated approximately 119 kilometres south-west of Adelaide. As the island's largest town and its administrative and communications centre, Kingscote serves as the logical point of entry for submarine cable infrastructure connecting Kangaroo Island to the Australian mainland. One submarine cable lands at Kingscote, linking it directly to another landing point within Australia and providing the island with a dedicated subsea communications link.
The single cable landing at Kingscote is the Kangaroo Island 2 system, which connects two Australian endpoints. As a purely domestic cable, it establishes an intra-national corridor rather than an intercontinental route, reflecting the geographic reality of Kangaroo Island as an island community that requires its own dedicated undersea connection to the mainland network. This makes Kingscote a specialised domestic terminus within Australia's broader submarine cable geography.
Kangaroo Island 2 is a submarine cable with a Ready for Service (RFS) date of 2024, currently in draft status. The cable connects landing points within Australia, providing Kangaroo Island with a subsea link to the Australian mainland. Both endpoints on this cable are located within Australia, confirming its role as a domestic inter-island connection rather than an international route.
Within Australia's submarine cable network, which spans 31 cables across 27 landing points, Kingscote ranks in the top 63 percent of Australian landing points by cable count, hosting one cable. This places it ahead of a number of its national peers, though major hubs such as Sydney with ten cables, Darwin and Perth each with five, and Melbourne and Alexandria each with three, represent considerably larger concentrations of submarine cable infrastructure. Kingscote's single-cable profile is consistent with its role as a regional island terminus rather than a major international gateway.
Kingscote functions as a single-cable terminus, serving as the Kangaroo Island endpoint of the Kangaroo Island 2 system and providing the island with a dedicated domestic undersea communications path to the Australian mainland. It does not operate as a multi-cable hub and does not connect to international cable systems, positioning it as a focused domestic access point within Australia's national network.
In the broader Australian submarine cable graph, Kingscote represents the category of island-serving landing points whose purpose is domestic connectivity rather than international traffic exchange. Its presence ensures that Kangaroo Island, as a populated and administratively distinct community, is served by its own subsea link independent of terrestrial or aerial alternatives.
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