Skewjack, United Kingdom

Skewjack, United Kingdom is a submarine cable landing point in United Kingdom (coordinates 50.0636°, -5.6751°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in United Kingdom's international connectivity infrastructure.

Skewjack is a plot of land in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated about 1.5 miles (2 km) east of Land's End on the B3315 road. It was the site of RAF Sennen, and is now the site of a Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe building. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Skewjack, United Kingdom, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include France, United States. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 1 monitoring event on cables serving Skewjack, United Kingdom in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• FLAG Atlantic-1 (FA-1) (2001) — FLAG Atlantic-1 (FA-1) is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting United States, France, United Kingdom. Its 4 landing points at Island Park, Northport, Plerin, Skewjack bridge the networks of North America, Europe, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →

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