Platinum, AK, United States

Platinum, AK, United States is a submarine cable landing point in United States (coordinates 58.9859°, -161.7107°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United States's international connectivity infrastructure.

Platinum is a chemical element; it has symbol Pt and atomic number 78. It is a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, precious, silverish-white transition metal. Its name originates from Spanish platina, a diminutive of plata "silver". Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Platinum, AK, United States, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include United States. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Platinum, AK, United States in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Airraq (2025) — Airraq is a domestic submarine cable network within United States, connecting 5 coastal and island locations including Dillingham, Eek, Platinum, Quinhagak, Togiak. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.