Landing Point · EE Estonia
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Finland Estonia Connection 1 (FEC-1) | Active |
| Finland Estonia Connection 2 (FEC-2) | Active |
| Sweden-Estonia (EE-S 1) | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-24 through 2026-05-20 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 4 | 74.7 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 4 | 80.4 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 4 | 88.8 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 4 | 22.6 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 40.3 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 59.6 ms |
Kärdla is a landing point located in Estonia, a Baltic state in Northern Europe. Three submarine cables make landfall at Kärdla, connecting Estonia to two of its immediate neighbors across the Baltic Sea: Sweden and Finland. This collection of cables positions Kärdla as a node in the regional Baltic submarine cable network, enabling cross-sea connectivity in both a westward direction toward Sweden and a northward direction toward Finland.
The cables landing at Kärdla span connections that were established in the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2000s. Among the most notable are the two Finland Estonia Connection cables, which together form a paired link between Estonia and Finland, and the Sweden-Estonia cable, which bridges the Baltic Sea toward Sweden. Together, these three systems make Kärdla a multi-cable landing point serving intra-Baltic regional corridors.
Sweden-Estonia (EE-S 1) is a submarine cable stretching 240 km that entered service in 1995. It connects Estonia and Sweden, running beneath the Baltic Sea to link these two countries across the water. This was among the earlier submarine cable connections established in the region.
Finland Estonia Connection 1 (FEC-1) entered service in 2000 and connects Estonia and Finland. This cable forms one of a pair of submarine links between the two countries that were ready for service in the same year, providing a northern Baltic corridor between Estonia and its Finnish neighbor.
Finland Estonia Connection 2 (FEC-2) also entered service in 2000 and similarly connects Estonia and Finland. Running in parallel with FEC-1, FEC-2 constitutes the second of the two Finland-Estonia Connection cables, reinforcing the submarine link between the two countries with a dedicated second system.
Within Estonia, Kärdla shares the distinction of hosting three submarine cables with both Kihelkonna and Tallinn, making it one of the more active landing points in the country by cable count. Meremöisa, another Estonian landing point, hosts two cables, placing Kärdla and its three-cable count slightly above that peer. Together, these Estonian landing points form a distributed national submarine cable infrastructure across the Baltic coastline.
Kärdla serves as a multi-cable landing point rather than a single-cable terminus, hosting three distinct submarine systems that reach outward to Sweden and Finland. The Sweden-Estonia cable extends the landing point's reach westward across the Baltic, while the two FEC cables create a reinforced northward corridor toward Finland. The presence of two cables on the Finland-Estonia route, both landing at Kärdla and both entering service in 2000, reflects a deliberate redundancy built into the cross-Gulf-of-Finland connection.
In the broader Baltic submarine cable graph, Kärdla connects Estonia to two neighboring countries through three separate cable systems, making it one of the better-connected landing points on the Estonian coast and a meaningful node in the regional Baltic Sea cable network.
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