The Medieval Undersea Cable Map

Every twelvemonth Telegeography practice an undersea cable map of the footing too every twelvemonth the map gets better.

The 2015 Submarine Cable map is inspired past times medieval too renaissance cartography too features non alone a vintage map mode simply ocean monsters, map edge illustrations and images showing around of the mutual causes of cable faults.

The map shows 299 submarine cable systems across the globe, that are active or are nether construction. The edge illustrations provide information on the capacity information of around of the major cable routes. Other inset illustrations render information on how submarine cables are laid.

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