The Birth of the Pacific Cable It would take two decades of negotiation and persistence before governments; Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, agreed to share costs. The Pacific Cable Act of 1901 finally set the project in motion. By 1902, the Pacific Cable Board (PCB) was established, managing what came to be celebrated as the “All-Red Route”, so named for the red shade used to mark British territories on world maps
Stretching 8,860 miles, the route linked Canada, Fiji, Australia, and New Zealand, knitting the Empire’s Pacific dominions into a secure communications web. For the first time, messages could cross the Pacific without detouring through foreign lands.
armored submarine cable used in the 19th-century All-Red Line
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