Rupert's Bay, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Rupert's Bay, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha is a submarine cable landing point in Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (coordinates -15.9186°, -5.7115°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Ascension and Tristan da Cunha's international connectivity infrastructure.

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Rupert's Bay, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, international traffic can reach 5 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Namibia, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Togo. 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 Rupert's Bay, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha 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

• Equiano (2023) — Equiano is Google's privately-funded submarine cable system connecting Europe and Africa. Activated in stages between 2022 and 2023, it runs roughly 15,000 km from Sesimbra in Portugal down the entire west coast of Africa to Melkbosstrand near Cape Town, with branch landings at Lagos (Nigeria), Lomé (Togo), Swakopmund (Namibia), and the remote British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena. Read more →

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