Landing Point · CA Canada
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Connected Coast | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-05-28 through 2026-07-10 - live ICMP round-trip time via our monitoring probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 105.1 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 2 | 110.9 ms |
| #6487 own probe | Singapore SG | 1 | 189.1 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 217.1 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 1 | 173.8 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 1 | 135.4 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 1 | 143.5 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 1 | 144.7 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 108.3 ms |
Surge Narrows is a landing point located in British Columbia, Canada, situated in the Discovery Islands archipelago along the province's South Coast region. As a submarine cable landing point, it serves the coastal and island communities of this part of British Columbia, where overland connectivity options are limited and submarine cables provide an essential means of linking dispersed island settlements. One submarine cable lands at Surge Narrows, making it a single-cable terminus within Canada's broader submarine cable network.
The cable landing at Surge Narrows forms part of an intra-Canadian corridor, connecting this island location to other points within British Columbia and Canada more broadly. Rather than enabling intercontinental links, the connection here is regional in character, oriented toward closing the connectivity gap between island communities and the mainland infrastructure of the province.
Connected Coast is the sole submarine cable landing at Surge Narrows. Reaching its ready-for-service status in 2024, the Connected Coast cable is an entirely domestic Canadian system, with all of its landing points located within Canada. The cable is specifically designed to serve coastal and remote communities in British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada, and its arrival at Surge Narrows reflects the broader goal of extending connectivity to underserved island and coastal locations in the Discovery Islands region.
Among Canada's 155 submarine cable landing points, Surge Narrows hosts one cable, placing it alongside a number of other single-cable terminals across the country. Within British Columbia specifically, it shares this single-cable status with Addenbroke Island, while other BC landing points such as Prince Rupert and Vancouver each host two cables. The landing at Surge Narrows reflects a pattern seen across Canada, where numerous smaller coastal and island communities are served by dedicated domestic cable systems rather than large multi-cable hubs.
Surge Narrows functions as a single-cable terminus on the Connected Coast system, directing intra-Canadian submarine capacity toward the island communities of the Discovery Islands archipelago in British Columbia. Its role is not that of an international gateway but rather a domestic network node, helping to extend the reach of Canada's submarine cable infrastructure into geographically isolated coastal areas where terrestrial alternatives are impractical.
Within the regional submarine cable graph, Surge Narrows represents one of many targeted landing points that collectively give the Connected Coast cable its distributed, community-oriented character across Canada's Pacific coastline.
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