Kingscote, SA, Australia

Kingscote, SA, Australia is a submarine cable landing point in Australia (coordinates -35.6523°, 137.6326°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Australia's international connectivity infrastructure.

Kingscote is a town in the Australian state of South Australia located on Kangaroo Island about 119 kilometres (74 mi) south-west of the state capital of Adelaide. It is South Australia's oldest European settlement and the island's largest town. It is a well-established tourist centre and the administrative and communications centre. It is home to a colony of the smallest penguins in the world, the Australian little penguin. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Kingscote, SA, Australia, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Australia. 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 Kingscote, SA, Australia 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

• Kangaroo Island 2 (2024) — Kangaroo Island 2 is a submarine cable system operating within Australia, with landing points at Cape Jervis, Kingscote. It provides dedicated submarine fiber capacity between these locations, supporting telecommunications, internet access, and enterprise connectivity. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.