Landing Point · AU Australia
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Japan-Guam-Australia South (JGA-S) | Active |
| Tabua | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-24 through 2026-05-30 — 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 | 3 | 296.5 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 284.1 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 292.6 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 299.7 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 284.3 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 265.9 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 0.2 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 92.6 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 275.0 ms |
Maroochydore is a coastal town on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Positioned along Australia's eastern seaboard, it serves as a submarine cable landing point for two international systems, connecting Australia to Guam and across the Pacific toward the United States and Fiji. These connections place Maroochydore within a trans-Pacific and inter-island corridor, linking the Australian mainland to Pacific island territories and onward to North America.
The two cables landing at Maroochydore — Japan-Guam-Australia South (JGA-S) and Tabua — together establish the town as a meaningful node in Australia's broader submarine cable network. While not the largest landing point in the country, Maroochydore hosts a pair of systems that span both trans-Pacific intercontinental routes and regional Pacific island connectivity.
Japan-Guam-Australia South (JGA-S) is a submarine cable system spanning 7,081 kilometres, with a ready-for-service (RFS) date of 2020. The cable connects Australia and Guam, with Maroochydore serving as one of its Australian landing points. It forms part of the broader JGA cable system linking the Asia-Pacific region through a southern Australian route via the island of Guam.
Tabua is a submarine cable with a projected RFS date of 2026. The cable connects Australia, Fiji, and the United States, establishing a trans-Pacific link that also incorporates Fiji as a regional Pacific waypoint. The Maroochydore landing forms one of the Australian endpoints of this system, positioning the town within a corridor that bridges the south-west Pacific and North America.
Within Australia's submarine cable landscape — which spans 31 cables across 27 landing points — Maroochydore ranks in the top 81 percent of Australian landing points by cable count. Sydney leads the country with 10 cables, while Darwin and Perth each host five. Maroochydore's two cables place it alongside Brookvale, NSW, and above several single-cable landing points around the continent.
Maroochydore functions as a two-cable landing point on Australia's eastern coast, supporting trans-Pacific routes to Guam and the United States as well as a regional link to Fiji. The JGA-S cable anchors it to the established Guam hub of the Asia-Pacific cable network, while the forthcoming Tabua cable broadens its connectivity to include a direct Pacific island pathway toward North America. Together, these two systems give Maroochydore both an intercontinental and a regional Pacific dimension.
As a mid-tier landing point in the Australian submarine cable graph, Maroochydore adds geographic diversity to Australia's eastern cable footprint, supplementing the heavily concentrated Sydney cluster with an additional Queensland terminus for Pacific-facing traffic.
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