North Salina, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba

North Salina, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba: Submarine Cable Landing Point

North Salina is a submarine cable landing point located in the Caribbean special municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, which form part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. As a coastal landing point in this island territory, North Salina connects the local telecommunications infrastructure to the broader regional submarine cable network of the southern Caribbean. One submarine cable lands at North Salina, linking it directly to the neighbouring island country of Curaçao.

The single cable landing here, the Jerry Newton, establishes a short inter-island connection within the Dutch Caribbean. At just 88 km in length, this link spans the relatively modest distance between these two island territories, providing a direct undersea pathway for data and communications traffic between them.

Cables Landing at North Salina, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba

The Jerry Newton cable is the sole submarine cable landing at North Salina. It has a length of 88 km and reached ready-for-service status in 2007, making it the first submarine cable to land in Sint Eustatius and Saba. The cable connects North Salina to Curaçao, a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands situated in the southern Caribbean Sea, approximately 65 km north of Venezuela. This cable therefore creates a direct inter-island link between two Dutch Caribbean territories across a short stretch of Caribbean sea.

Regional Context

Within Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, North Salina is one of four submarine cable landing points, alongside Gallows Bay, Great Level Bay, and Kralendijk, each of which also hosts a single cable. North Salina therefore shares an equal standing with its regional peers in terms of cable count, and together these four landing points account for all three submarine cables serving the territory.

Network Role

North Salina functions as a single-cable terminus, hosting only the Jerry Newton cable and providing a dedicated inter-island connection between Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba and Curaçao. This link operates within the Dutch Caribbean island cluster, enabling direct submarine connectivity across a short but strategically meaningful stretch of water between two territories that share political ties through the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Within the regional submarine cable graph, North Salina represents one node in a small but distributed set of landing points serving Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, and its connection to Curaçao positions it as a direct link between two neighbouring segments of the Dutch Caribbean telecommunications network.