Pre 1914, Western Australia, Rottnest Island, Undersea Cable, 1900
Section of the 1900 undersea communication cable to Rottnest Island. The small diameter line beneath the cable is a modern fibre-optic cable with a 10,000 X carrying capacity of the gutta-percha covered wire armoured cable above.
Communication between Rottnest and the mainland was not improved until after the tragic sinking of the City of York, wrecked on Rottnest in 1899. Faulty signalling by the lighthouse keeper was one cause of the ship being wrecked and 11 being drowned.
Premier John Forrest soon promised either wireless or telegraph communication, or a telephone cable A single circuit telephone cable was laid in 1900. This cable served until replaced in 1935 by a higher capacity multi-circuit cable.
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