Point Roberts, WA, United States

Point Roberts, WA, United States is a submarine cable landing point in United States (coordinates 48.9887°, -123.0568°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United States's international connectivity infrastructure.

Point Roberts is a pene-exclave of the US state of Washington on the southernmost tip of the Tsawwassen peninsula, south of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The area, which had a population of 1,191 at the 2020 census, is reached from the rest of the United States by traveling 25 mi (40 km) through Canada, or without passing through Canada by boat or private airplane. It is a census-designated place in Whatcom County, Washington, with a post office, and a ZIP Code of 98281. Direct sea and air connections with the rest of the U.S. are available across Boundary Bay. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Point Roberts, WA, United States, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Canada, 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 Point Roberts, WA, 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

• AmeriCan-1 (1999) — AmeriCan-1 is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Canada and United States. Landing at Cordova Bay, Esquimalt, Oak Harbor, Point Roberts, Seattle, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

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