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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Well, take a look at this map and tell me how many TransAtlantic landing stations are within several kilometers of each other.<BR>
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Look at how the TransAtlantic cables converge to landing points (except for Hibernia).<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.kisca.org.uk/Web_SWApproaches.pdf">http://www.kisca.org.uk/Web_SWApproaches.pdf</A><BR>
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These maps are used by UK and Irish fishing boats to avoid the undersea cables.<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Alexander Harrowell<BR>
Sent: Thu 1/31/2008 10:48 AM<BR>
To: Hank Nussbacher<BR>
Cc: Sean Donelan; nanog@merit.edu<BR>
Subject: Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption<BR>
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il><BR>
wrote:<BR>
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> I think more interesting is the landing stations where numerous cables<BR>
> intersect. They may be diverse in the water, but they cluster around each<BR>
> other when they hit the landing stations.<BR>
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Exactly; which have historically been in the same strategic locations. Suez,<BR>
Singapore, Cape Town; it's the strategic map of the British Empire. "Five<BR>
strategic keys lock up the world", as Lord Fisher said. (Dover, Gibraltar,<BR>
Singapore, Cape Town, and Suez).<BR>
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The similarity is truly uncanny.<BR>
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