Powell River, BC, Canada

Powell River, BC, Canada is a submarine cable landing point in Canada (coordinates 49.8359°, -124.5238°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Canada's international connectivity infrastructure.

Powell River is a city on the northern Sunshine Coast of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Most of its population lives near the eastern shores of Malaspina Strait, which is part of the larger Georgia Strait between Vancouver Island and the Mainland. With two intervening long, steep-sided fjords inhibiting the construction of a contiguous road connection with Vancouver to the south, geographical surroundings explain Powell River's remoteness as a community, despite relative proximity to Vancouver and other populous areas of the BC Coast. The city is the location of the head office of the qathet Regional District. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Powell River, BC, Canada, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Canada. 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 Powell River, BC, Canada 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

• Connected Coast (2024) — Connected Coast is a domestic submarine cable network within Canada, connecting 108 coastal and island locations including Addenbroke Island, Ahousat, Alert Bay, Bamfield, Bella Bella, and 103 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.