Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

Alexander Harrowell a.harrowell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 31 10:48:45 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Hank Nussbacher <hank at efes.iucc.ac.il>
wrote:

>
> I think more interesting is the landing stations where numerous cables
> intersect.  They may be diverse in the water, but they cluster around each
> other when they hit the landing stations.


Exactly; which have historically been in the same strategic locations. Suez,
Singapore, Cape Town; it's the strategic map of the British Empire. "Five
strategic keys lock up the world", as Lord Fisher said. (Dover, Gibraltar,
Singapore, Cape Town, and Suez).

The similarity is truly uncanny.
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