Shawl Bay, BC, Canada

Shawl Bay, BC, Canada is a submarine cable landing point in Canada (coordinates 50.8489°, -126.5586°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Canada's international connectivity infrastructure.

Shawl Bay, British Columbia, Canada, is a bay and locality on the west side of the Wishart Peninsula, which is to the east of Broughton Island, in the Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland near the entrance to Kingcome Inlet. The bay is located between the Wishart Peninsula to the east and Gregory Island to the west; the locality is located on the east side of the bay on a small isthmus at 50°51′20″N 126°33′20″W which forms the Wishart Peninsula. It can be approached from Penphrase Passage from the east, or Sutlej Channel from the west. There is a commercial marina at this location serving pleasure boaters. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Shawl Bay, 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 Shawl Bay, 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.