Telegraph lines

[swamphen]

It occured to me that I'd left out connecting the Spanish Philippines and DEI island as well...

Added lines for Dutch, Spanish, French and New Swiss in the East/South East Asian/West Pacific region (plus Taz). Note that the NS lines to Shanghai and Hong Kong are cut at the terminuses of course...  ;)

[Desertfox]

I forgot about those, maybe I should go and dig them up. All that good cable being wasted...

[P3D]

My further notes:
- there should be one Dutch line from Azores to Holland
- I don't think the Swiss invested $20 just to connect Alaska directly to Hawaii, it's too long a stretch. This connection should be through coastal lines, even if Swiss.
- I think the DKB do have a cable to Firanj, not in the Indian Ocean, but South of Australia.
- I'd say the Easter Island-Chile connection did not exist before 1905 (no DKB interests in South America), and there is not economy there to warrant it. It has strategic justifications, but was not paid for. And again, a long stretch.
- A Spanish Cap Verde-Brazil connection is justified OTOH
- I kept the southern French link to Firanj as some stupid thing that would be completely in character for the French.
- The Italian line to Eritrea is politically not secure, it crosses either Caliphate or Ottoman lands. My guess is for the latter. Not along the Suez canal.
- CSA link to Liberia?

[Desertfox]

So North from San Fransisco? Or from Midway up the Auletians?

There should also be a Japanese link to Alaska.

[Ithekro]

Perhaps they use ground lines through Rohan

[swamphen]

- there should be one Dutch line from Azores to Holland

Will be added.

- I don't think the Swiss invested $20 just to connect Alaska directly to Hawaii, it's too long a stretch. This connection should be through coastal lines, even if Swiss.

Up the Aleutian chain (Phoenix-Attu? or Unalaska?) might work, thoughts?

- I think the DKB do have a cable to Firanj, not in the Indian Ocean, but South of Australia.

Through the Torres Strait maybe?  ;D  I guess that makes more sense, to have the line run from the capital instead of roundabout through Neue Heligoland.

- I'd say the Easter Island-Chile connection did not exist before 1905 (no DKB interests in South America), and there is not economy there to warrant it. It has strategic justifications, but was not paid for. And again, a long stretch.

I was assuming that was an ex-ACM line connecting their coaling station to the world, but if you don't think they would have done that I'll remove it.

- A Spanish Cap Verde-Brazil connection is justified OTOH

Adding.

- The Italian line to Eritrea is politically not secure, it crosses either Caliphate or Ottoman lands. My guess is for the latter. Not along the Suez canal.

To be tweaked...

- CSA link to Liberia?

Sounds logical.

[swamphen]

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[Borys]

Ahoj!
I suppose I did "inherit" some ACM lines. But I never really wondered how the main cables run, nor who owns them. I assumed that there MUST be some sort of cable from Europe to Aden or to Brazil or the Philippines.
I am not sure that the Habsburgs would had built their own cable to Namibia, for instance.
Borys

[P3D]

I bet the French had cables almost everywhere except of the Pacific Ocean.

Aden & Oman: the cables are operated by the Egypt State Telegraph Co, they form a part of their old network.
Namibia: I'd guess it was reached by coastal lines laid by Orange (i did not display draw them, they'd clutter the map).
Easter Island: If Swamphen wants telegraph connection, I'd bet they are connected to Peru, not Chile. With the late Agrival residing in Peru we'd assume the relationship was friendly between Peru and the ACM.

[maddox]

We even can assume safely that Peru is hosting a part of the exiled ACM merchants.

[Borys]

Ahoj!
I agree with your thinking, P3D.
IMO there is scope for only one Habsburg owned cable - Pola (Kotor?) to Malta, but even that is questionable. I use "international" lines.
I think I will have to go for w/t if this becomes an issue.
Mind you - I have a quite powerful transmitter at Alhucema already :)

Borys

[P3D]

Look at the map, there's a line to Malta. Swamphen have drawn it to Alhucema, but I doubt the extension would have been financed by the cash-strapped Austria.

[Borys]

Swamphen is being nice :)

[swamphen]

Heh. :) Actually I was thinking that there was an ACM cable running Über-Azores to Gibraltar to Malta, and that the Gibraltar-Malta part was taken over by the Austrians so they could just run a short line to their little Moroccan holding from the Rock.

Map updated: Italian Afrikan line shifted, added Aden-(Socorra)-Oman CofC/Egypt line, Orange Cape Town-Walvis Bay-Angola-Nambia line, Peruvian/ACM Easter Island line.

[The Rock Doctor]

Bump.

I'd be curious if folks could suggest a reasonable amount of time for laying X nm of undersea cable.  I'm contemplating projects.