West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands

West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands is a submarine cable landing point in Cocos (Keeling) Islands (coordinates -12.1931°, 96.8323°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Cocos (Keeling) Islands's international connectivity infrastructure.

The West Island is the unofficial name given to the city, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Lachine, Dorval, Pointe-Claire, and Beaconsfield, the municipalities of Kirkland, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Baie-D'Urfé, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, the village of Senneville, and two North Shore boroughs of the city of Montreal: Pierrefonds-Roxboro and L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, international traffic can reach 3 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Australia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Oman. 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 West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands 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

• Oman Australia Cable (OAC) (2022) — Oman Australia Cable (OAC) is an intercontinental submarine cable system connecting Middle East and Oceania, with 5 landing points across 4 countries including Barka, Oman, Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Perth, WA, Australia, Salalah, Oman and others. The cable provides cross-continental connectivity, offering an important route for data traffic between Middle East and Oceania. Read more →

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