Yuquot, BC, Canada

Yuquot, BC, Canada: Submarine Cable Landing Point

Yuquot — also known as Friendly Cove — is a small settlement on Nootka Island in Nootka Sound, located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Despite its remote and sparsely populated character, Yuquot serves as a submarine cable landing point on Canada's Pacific coast. One submarine cable currently lands here, connecting Yuquot to other points within Canada.

The single cable landing at Yuquot, the Connected Coast system, operates entirely within Canada, making this landing point part of a domestic coastal connectivity corridor rather than an intercontinental route. Its presence on Nootka Island reflects the broader challenge — and ambition — of extending submarine cable infrastructure to remote and coastal communities along British Columbia's rugged shoreline.

Cables Landing at Yuquot

Connected Coast reached ready-for-service status in 2024, with a draft designation reflecting its recent deployment. The cable connects a series of landing points within Canada, running along the British Columbia coast. No cable length is recorded for this system. As a domestic cable linking Canadian communities, Connected Coast is designed to bring improved connectivity to remote coastal and island locations, of which Yuquot is one.

Regional Context

Within Canada's submarine cable landscape — which spans 21 cables across 155 landing points — Yuquot hosts a single cable, placing it in the lower tier of landing points by cable count. It shares this single-cable status with Addenbroke Island, BC, another remote British Columbia location on the Connected Coast system. By comparison, other Canadian landing points such as Halifax, NS; Kangiqsujuaq, QC; Prince Rupert, BC; Puvirnituq, QC; and Vancouver, BC each host two cables, representing a broader range of connectivity options.

Network Role

Yuquot functions as a single-cable terminus on the Connected Coast system, contributing one node to a domestic Canadian coastal cable route. Its role is specifically that of a remote community landing point within British Columbia, where submarine cable infrastructure bridges geographic isolation along the Pacific coastline. The Connected Coast cable that touches Yuquot does not extend to other countries, meaning this landing point's network role is oriented entirely toward intra-Canadian coastal connectivity.

Within the broader Canadian submarine cable graph, Yuquot represents the reach of domestic infrastructure into some of the most geographically isolated communities on the British Columbia coast, demonstrating that submarine cable deployment in Canada extends well beyond major urban centres and international gateways.