These inquiries are managed in a comprehensive tracking database. The NSCPO is uniquely positioned to respond to queries from commercial and Government cable owners, planners, surveyors and installation contractors in order to minimize possible damage to DoD cable systems and other seafloor assets. undated, but post-1935.The Naval Seafloor Cable Protection Office provides the single point of contact and management of a world-wide Geographic Information System (GIS) database of commercial and Government submarine cable systems.
SUBMARINE CABLE MAP FROM NYC TO LONDON CODE
Telegraphic Code 5th Editionġ902 British All Red Line map, from Johnson’s The All Red Line – The Annals and Aims of the Pacific Cable Projectġ903 Map: Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Co Ltd Showing submarine telegraph cables the cores of which were manufactured at The Gutta Percha Works, Wharf Road, City Road, London N.ġ924 International Cables map from Schreiner: Cables and Wirelessġ924: The Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies’ Cable System mapĬable and Wireless “Via Imperial” map. Evidence for this is that one submarine cable, from France to North America, is shown as “in operation ” this cable was laid in 1869.ġ893 map of North Atlantic cables (center section omitted), from Charles Bright’s Submarine Telegraphsġ901 Eastern Telegraph Company System Map from A.B.C. Note: This Colton world map is dated 1855, but it was re-issued about 1870 with the cable lines added, together with a new title and caption. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, call number G3201.P92 1855. in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. 1870 Map showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and contemplated, to complete the circuit of the globe / entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Note also the route of Tal Shaffner’s proposed northern cable.ġ865: Chart of the World Showing the Proposed Submarine & Land Telegraphs Round the World from The Atlantic Telegraph.Ĭ. Map of the Telegraph Plateau, from Maury’s Physical Geography of the Sea (1869 edition), showing the routes of the 1858 Atlantic Cable and the proposed 1869 French cableġ865: Map Shewing the Atlantic Telegraph and other Submarine Cables in Europe and America from The Atlantic Telegraph. Practical Lithographers, 54 William Street, New York” Although no publisher is shown on this map, another copy is marked: “Korff Brothers. Map of the 1858 Atlantic Cable route from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, August 21, 1858Īnother map of the 1858 Atlantic Cable route. (The Vertical scale, showing depths of soundings, is about 72 times greater than the longitudinal scale.) Cyclops, 1857, for laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. Vertical section of the bed of the Atlantic Ocean,įrom Valencia, Ireland, to Trinity Bay, Newfoundland,(on line C.D of chart above) showing Soundings made by Lieut. Posterior maps are from the ‘ Telegeography‘ site.įurther read (in Italian): “ Internet e la battaglia del Mediterraneo, Conversazione con Renzo Ravaglia (Interoute)” “ (Internet and the battle on the Mediterranean sea, a conversation with Renzo Ravaglia of Interoute)”
SUBMARINE CABLE MAP FROM NYC TO LONDON SERIES
He also adds: “So do not forget that the Internet wars – like the one already under way against Iran, will be fought more and more not only on the virtual plane but also on the real one and the immateriality of the network is not so predictable and guaranteed as it may seem.”Īfter reading Desiderio’s article, Sabrina Campagna collected a series of international submarine maps, documenting the impressive development of undersea communication structures from 1857 to present-day.Īll maps and refences until 1992 are courtesy of the ‘ History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications’ site. for whatever the purpose, political and economical competition towards the management, the legislation and the geographical positioning of the cables, for reasons of power or money.” He asserts that the phisycality of internet’s skeleton implies the same technical problems of every communication and transport infrastructures, namely (our translation): “strategical bottlenecks, the possibility of structural sabotage by governments, terrorists etc. Alfonso Desiderio, a journalist of Italian geopolitics magazine Limes, recently published an interesting piece on the submarine cables infrastructure that supports the diffusion of the immaterial informations via telephone or internet.
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