Zeballos, BC, Canada

Zeballos, BC, Canada: Submarine Cable Landing Point

Zeballos is a village situated on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. As a coastal community, it serves as one of 155 submarine cable landing points across Canada, a national network that spans 21 submarine cables. One submarine cable lands at Zeballos, connecting it to British Columbia's broader coastal connectivity infrastructure.

The single cable landing here, Connected Coast, is a domestic Canadian cable, meaning the corridor it enables is intra-national rather than intercontinental. This makes Zeballos a regional rather than transoceanic node, part of the fabric of coastal British Columbia's submarine cable geography alongside other landing points on the province's intricate shoreline.

Cables Landing at Zeballos

Connected Coast is the sole submarine cable landing at Zeballos. It received its ready-for-service (RFS) date in 2024, placing it among Canada's more recently activated cable infrastructure. Connected Coast is an entirely domestic cable, with all of its other endpoints also located in Canada. The cable serves communities along the British Columbia coast, and Zeballos is one of its designated landing points within that network.

Regional Context

Within Canada's landing point landscape, Zeballos ranks in the top 97% of the country's 155 landing points by cable count, reflecting its role as a single-cable terminus. Several other Canadian landing points host more cables: Halifax, NS; Kangiqsujuaq, QC; Prince Rupert, BC; Puvirnituq, QC; and Vancouver, BC each land two cables, while Addenbroke Island, BC — also in British Columbia — shares Zeballos's profile of a single cable. Among British Columbia landing points specifically, Zeballos sits alongside both single-cable and multi-cable peers.

Network Role

Zeballos functions as a single-cable terminus on the Connected Coast system, a domestic network linking coastal British Columbia communities. Its network role is focused on intra-provincial and intra-national connectivity rather than international routing. The Connected Coast cable, with its 2024 RFS date, represents one of the newer additions to Canada's submarine cable infrastructure, and Zeballos is one of the landing points through which that system delivers connectivity to remote coastal communities in the region.

Within the regional submarine cable graph, Zeballos represents a category of landing point common across Canada — a smaller coastal community served by a single domestic cable — illustrating how submarine cable infrastructure in Canada extends well beyond major urban centres to reach communities along complex and difficult-to-access shorelines such as the northwest coast of Vancouver Island.