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Porthcurno cable station

A small valley on the south-west tip of Cornwall which, for most of a century, was the busiest cable landing point on Earth.

50.0, -5.7 · approximate · 1870 – 1970 as a working station; museum and archive thereafter

connected to The Egyptian cable land crossing — The Eastern Telegraph Company's route from Porthcurno to India crossed the Egyptian isthmus, the same corridor today's Europe–Asia cables cross.
instance of The cable landing station — Porthcurno was for a century the busiest landing station in the world, and its selection criteria are those still used.

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A small valley on the south-west tip of Cornwall which, for most of a century, was the busiest cable landing point on Earth.

50.0, -5.7 · approximate · 1870 – 1970 as a working station; museum and archive thereafter

connected to The Egyptian cable land crossing — The Eastern Telegraph Company's route from Porthcurno to India crossed the Egyptian isthmus, the same corridor today's Europe–Asia cables cross.
instance of The cable landing station — Porthcurno was for a century the busiest landing station in the world, and its selection criteria are those still used.