Landing Point · GB United Kingdom
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-24 through 2026-07-10 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 39.9 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 2 | 99.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 64.1 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 78.0 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 47.7 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 255.4 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 181.6 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 79.8 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 42.3 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 1 | 48.9 ms |
Leverburgh is a village on the island of Harris in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, forming part of the United Kingdom's coastal infrastructure for submarine telecommunications. As a landing point, Leverburgh connects to the domestic submarine cable network that links the Scottish mainland and its island communities. One submarine cable lands here, providing a direct intra-national link within the United Kingdom.
The single cable serving Leverburgh is the BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System, a domestic network designed to improve connectivity across Scotland's more remote coastal and island regions. The corridor this cable enables is entirely intra-UK, supporting communications between the Outer Hebrides and other parts of the United Kingdom rather than spanning international borders.
The BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System is 402 kilometres in length and reached its ready-for-service (RFS) date in 2014, with its status recorded as draft. The cable connects landing points exclusively within the United Kingdom, making it a domestic system focused on extending telecommunications reach to geographically isolated communities such as those found in the Outer Hebrides. Leverburgh serves as one of its landing points, integrating Harris into this wider intra-UK submarine network.
Within the United Kingdom's submarine cable landscape, Leverburgh is one of 125 landing points and hosts a single cable, placing it in the top 88% of UK landing points by cable count. Larger hubs within the country — such as Bude with eight cables and Lowestoft with six — serve as major international and regional nodes, while Leverburgh occupies a more specialised domestic role. Its position is comparable to other single-cable landing points across the UK that serve regional connectivity purposes rather than international routing.
Leverburgh functions as a single-cable terminus within the BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System, channelling domestic submarine connectivity to the island of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. It does not serve as a gateway to international cable routes or as a multi-cable hub, but instead fulfils a focused role in extending the United Kingdom's intra-national submarine network to a geographically remote community. The cable it hosts, at 402 kilometres, is well below the UK average cable length of 1,615 kilometres, reflecting its regional rather than long-distance scope.
In the broader submarine cable graph of the United Kingdom, Leverburgh represents the kind of single-termination landing point that ensures island and coastal communities remain connected to the national network. Its presence in the Outer Hebrides highlights how domestic submarine infrastructure complements longer international cables by addressing the last-mile connectivity needs of remote areas that terrestrial networks cannot easily serve.
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