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3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

Now · 2026

maritime region

The Red Sea cable corridor

A sea about 2,000 km long and, at its southern gate, some tens of kilometres wide, through which the great majority of cable traffic between Europe and Asia passes.

20.0, 38.5 · regional · a telegraph route from the 1860s; the principal Europe–Asia cable corridor to the present

On the world

A place in: The Cables Beneath · 6 places

Places in the order the corpus dates them. The line marks that order — it is not a route, and no path between these places is recorded.

Connections

is adjacent to of The Egyptian cable land crossing — The land crossing begins where the Red Sea corridor ends, at landing stations on the Gulf of Suez coast.
instance of The cable chokepoint — A cable from Europe to Asia either takes this corridor or adds many thousands of kilometres around Africa.
is passes through of SEA-ME-WE 5 — The route enters the Red Sea through the Bab el-Mandeb and runs its length, landing in Djibouti, Yemen and Saudi Arabia on the way.

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865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

The places on Earth

242

area: — A region, drawn as one. The centre is not a location.
point: — A surveyed position. The mark is where the thing is.
soft: — A curatorial choice within a larger extent. The mark is near, not at.
waypoint: — A stop on a route. A single point does not describe it.

Outside the current lens or window · 198

1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

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Atlas — the world canvas

The Red Sea cable corridor

On the world

Connections

The places on Earth

In focus · 44

Outside the current lens or window · 198