Connecting communities in the region. Also there’s a lot of minerals shipping in the area and they need internet
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Connecting tiny, remote populations to the rest of the world, perchance? That sounds like a good enough use of my tax dollars on its face.
Low pop or not people still need to be able to communicate and that includes sea vessels and aircraft.
Many comments in here gave ample, good and serious answers that overlooked completely the great potential for silly jokes.
You mean like "Look it gets very cold, and there's a lot of snow for three quarters of the year, and a girl's got to put herself through college one way or another."
More like : "Hudson's Bay is already very wide so pulling cables across it is necessary to prevent it to get even wider."
(the title doesn't say if those are steel cables and asks their purpose)
I would almost guarantee that they're SURTASS cables
Undersea hydrophones for tracking submarines.
Oh that's a good shout. Never thought about that.
The only reason I thought about it was because I was a SONAR tech in the Navy and had friends in IUSS and SURTASS. Long-range passive SONAR like that is fascinating.
I suppose Canada would want (and probably has) these to surveil the bay. I doubt their military installations would be on most maps of undersea cables.
I would guess it's fiber optic cables to provide telecom access to remote communities though. It's likely a lot cheaper and easier to run undersea cables there than it would be to run thousands of kilometers of cables overland through remote wilderness and then maintain them when they're inevitabily damaged.
It looks like that peninsula is a national park with very rugged terrain, and that route might be the only way to get the towns connected at all.
Cheaper than poles?
That’s completely unnecessary. Don’t be rude.
The cables are isolated from the rest of the world
They literally don't connect to anywhere else

If the map you're using is just underwater cables, that still leaves cables on land as connection sources
There are no roads to these communities from anywhere...zo there wouldn't be any land cables ...well because there are no roads
Even if there's no roads, there's likely power lines. In some areas, they distribute the power underwater. It could very well be that they ran the network alongside the power.
There are no power lines to these places.
They use local diesel generators for power.
These places are as remote and isolated as it gets... I'm just trying to figure out why and expensive undersea cable was put in place for about 8000 people that doesn't connect to anywhere... And if it does it's wireless... So why not make the whole thing wireless fro the start
With this being a map of undersea cables, one of the nodes on those lines likely connects to the terrestrial network. With how remote and shitty to build on a lot of that land is, laying the cables undersea may have actually been faster and cheaper than laying them on land.
There are no roads to these communities though.
So I assume there are no land cables connected

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