Skaill, United Kingdom

Skaill, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 59.0515°, -3.3550°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill in the parish of Sandwick, on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. It consisted of ten clustered houses, made of flagstones, in earthen dams that provided support for the walls; the houses included stone hearths, beds, and cupboards. A primitive sewer system, with "toilets" and drains in each house, included water used to flush waste into a drain and out to the ocean. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Skaill, 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 Skaill, 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

• Northern Lights (2008) — Northern Lights is a submarine cable system operating within United Kingdom, with landing points at Dunnet Head, Skaill. It provides dedicated submarine fiber capacity between these locations, supporting telecommunications, internet access, and enterprise connectivity. Read more →

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