St. David’s, Bermuda

St. David's, Bermuda: Submarine Cable Landing Point

St. David's is a landing point located on St. David's Island, part of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, situated in the North Atlantic Ocean. Three submarine cables come ashore at St. David's, making it the larger of Bermuda's two cable landing points by cable count. Together, these systems connect Bermuda to destinations across the Western Hemisphere, spanning both intercontinental and regional corridors.

The cables landing at St. David's reach as far south as Brazil and Venezuela, establishing a transatlantic-scale link through the Americas, while shorter regional systems tie Bermuda to the United States and the British Virgin Islands. This combination of long-haul and shorter regional cables positions St. David's as the primary node in Bermuda's international connectivity infrastructure.

Cables Landing at St. David's, Bermuda

GlobeNet is the longest cable landing at St. David's, stretching 23,500 km and entering service in 2000. It connects Bermuda with Brazil, Colombia, the United States, and Venezuela, forming an extensive ring system that links North America and South America via the Caribbean and the Atlantic coast of South America. GlobeNet remains the only intercontinental cable among the three systems at this landing point.

Gemini Bermuda is a 1,501 km cable that entered service in 2007. It connects St. David's directly to the United States, providing a dedicated bilateral link between Bermuda and its nearest major continental neighbor. At just over 1,500 km in length, it is the shorter of the two cables linking Bermuda to the United States that land at this location.

Caribbean-Bermuda U.S. (CBUS) is a 1,700 km cable that entered service in 2009. It connects St. David's to the British Virgin Islands, extending Bermuda's submarine cable reach into the Eastern Caribbean and providing a regional link to another British Overseas Territory in the region.

Regional Context

Bermuda is served by two cable landing points, with St. David's hosting three of the five submarine cables that land across the territory, and Annie's Bay hosting the remaining two. St. David's therefore carries the majority of Bermuda's submarine cable connections, serving as the primary landing location within the island group.

Network Role

St. David's functions as a multi-cable hub within Bermuda, terminating three systems that collectively span a wide geographic range — from the east coast of the United States northward to Bermuda, and southward through the Caribbean to Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil. The presence of both a long-haul system like GlobeNet and shorter bilateral cables such as Gemini Bermuda and CBUS means the landing point supports both intercontinental traffic flows and more localized regional connectivity.

With three of Bermuda's five submarine cables concentrated at a single landing point on St. David's Island, this location represents the densest concentration of international cable capacity within the territory, anchoring Bermuda's position in the broader Western Atlantic submarine cable graph.