Submarine Cable - Victoria to Tasmania
Channel: National Communications Museum
Date: 2020-12-09

In 1936, an undersea cable was successfully installed to provide telephone service between Tasmania and mainland Australia, and by extension, the world. Following the route of the 1859 electric telegraph cable, the coaxial submarine cable stretched from Apollo Bay to a repeater station on King Island before landing nearly Stanley, Tasmania. The cable was the longest and most intensively used of its time.

Submarine Cable, National Communications Museum collection 1830.166.