Port Askaig, United Kingdom

Port Askaig, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 55.8477°, -6.1063°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Port Askaig is a port village on the east coast of the island of Islay, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The village lies on the Sound of Islay across from Jura. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Port Askaig, United Kingdom, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include United Kingdom. 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 Port Askaig, United Kingdom 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

• BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System (2014) — BT Highlands and Islands Submarine Cable System is a domestic submarine cable network within United Kingdom, connecting 40 coastal and island locations including Achnaba, Aikerness Bay, Ardbeg Point, Ardgour, Ardmair, and 35 more. 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.