Landing Point · GB United Kingdom
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| R100 North | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-06-11 through 2026-07-01 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 2 | 253.1 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 2 | 176.2 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 43.0 ms |
| #1016031 own probe | Kyiv UA | 2 | 45.8 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 1 | 55.8 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 49.9 ms |
Morar is a small village on the west coast of Scotland, situated in the region known as The Rough Bounds, approximately three miles south of Mallaig. Its coastline forms part of the Morar, Moidart and Ardnamurchan National Scenic Area. Despite its remote and scenic character, Morar serves as a submarine cable landing point, hosting the R100 North cable on Scotland's western seaboard.
One submarine cable lands at Morar: R100 North. As a domestic cable connecting points within the United Kingdom, it represents a regional connectivity link rather than an intercontinental route. The cable's presence at this location reflects the broader ambition to extend high-capacity submarine infrastructure to communities along Scotland's western coastline.
R100 North is a 224-kilometre submarine cable with a Ready for Service (RFS) year of 2023, currently listed at draft status. The cable connects landing points within the United Kingdom, making it a domestic intra-national link. At 224 kilometres, it is well below the United Kingdom's average submarine cable length of approximately 1,615 kilometres, consistent with its role as a shorter regional connector serving coastal and island communities within Scotland and the broader UK network.
Within the United Kingdom's submarine cable infrastructure — which spans 66 cables across 125 landing points — Morar hosts a single cable, placing it among the less cable-intensive landing points in the country. Major UK landing hubs such as Bude (8 cables), Lowestoft (6 cables), and Blackpool (4 cables) handle considerably greater cable volumes, while sites like Broadstairs, Porthcurno, and Southport each accommodate three cables. Morar's single-cable status is nonetheless consistent with its function as a targeted endpoint for regional domestic connectivity rather than a multi-corridor international hub.
Morar functions as a single-cable terminus within the United Kingdom's domestic submarine network. The R100 North cable, landing here at 224 kilometres in length, enables connectivity along a corridor that remains entirely within the United Kingdom, linking Morar to other domestic endpoints rather than bridging international or intercontinental routes. As a terminus rather than a transit hub, Morar's role is focused and specific: delivering submarine-carried capacity to a stretch of Scotland's west coast that would otherwise be difficult to serve through terrestrial infrastructure alone.
Within the broader UK submarine cable graph, Morar represents one of 125 landing points distributed across the country's coastline, demonstrating how the network extends beyond densely cabled southern hubs to reach remote northern and western communities through purpose-built domestic cables.
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