Scuthvie Bay, United Kingdom

Scuthvie Bay: Submarine Cable Landing Point

Scuthvie Bay is a submarine cable landing point located in the United Kingdom. As a coastal landing site, it forms part of the broader United Kingdom submarine cable network, which spans 42 cables across 105 landing points. Scuthvie Bay hosts one submarine cable, the R100 North, which connects locations within the United Kingdom itself, enabling domestic intra-national connectivity rather than intercontinental or cross-border links.

The R100 North cable, at 224 kilometres in length, represents a relatively short domestic route by comparison with the United Kingdom's average cable length of 1,451 kilometres. With a ready-for-service year of 2023, it is among the more recently deployed cables in the country's submarine infrastructure. As both endpoints of the R100 North remain within the United Kingdom, Scuthvie Bay serves a regional or inter-community corridor rather than an international one.

Cables Landing at Scuthvie Bay

R100 North is a 224-kilometre submarine cable with a ready-for-service year of 2023, currently at draft status. The cable connects landing points entirely within the United Kingdom, making it a domestic submarine link. At 224 kilometres, it is designed to serve regional connectivity needs within the country rather than spanning international or intercontinental distances.

Regional Context

Within the United Kingdom's network of 105 submarine cable landing points, Scuthvie Bay hosts a single cable, placing it in the lower tier of landing points by cable count — though this reflects the nature of its domestic, regionally focused route. By comparison, other United Kingdom landing points such as Bude host seven cables, while Blackpool, Southport, Holyhead, Lowestoft, and Portsmouth host between two and three cables each. Scuthvie Bay's profile is consistent with many of the United Kingdom's more specialised or geographically remote landing sites that serve targeted regional connectivity purposes.

Network Role

Scuthvie Bay functions as a single-cable terminus within the United Kingdom's submarine cable graph. The R100 North cable, landing here, enables a domestic submarine connection that supplements or extends terrestrial network reach within the country. Given that both ends of this cable remain within the United Kingdom, the landing point does not contribute directly to international bandwidth exchange, but instead supports intra-national connectivity for the communities and regions it serves.

In the broader context of the United Kingdom's 42-cable submarine network, Scuthvie Bay represents one of many specialised landing points that collectively distribute connectivity across the country's coastline, ensuring that domestic submarine routes complement the internationally oriented cables concentrated at higher-density hubs.