Vao, New Caledonia

Vao, New Caledonia is a submarine cable landing point in New Caledonia (coordinates -22.6719°, 167.4942°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in New Caledonia's international connectivity infrastructure.

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Vao, New Caledonia, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Fiji, New Caledonia. 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 Vao, New Caledonia 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

• Gondwana-2/Picot-2 (2022) — Gondwana-2/Picot-2 is a point-to-point submarine cable linking New Caledonia and Fiji. Landing at Mont-Dore, Noumea, Suva, Tadine, Vao, and 2 more, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

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