Pacific Cable Station Fiji, Fanning Island, and Vancouver. A branch connected to New Zealand. Since cartographers of the day traditionally coloured member countries of the British Empire in red, the route became known as the All Red Route. Cable laying started in 1902 with two ships, Anglica and Colonia. They began laying cable from Bamfield, Vancouver Island, Canada, to Fanning Island, Suva, Norfolk Island and Southport, Queensland, Australia. Colonia, built specifically for the project, laid cable from Vancouver Island to Fanning Island in the mid-Pacific. Anglia laid cable from Southport to Norfolk Island, Fiji, New Zealand and Fanning Island. The Cable Station landfall
Overseas Telecommunications Commission preparations for NASA's Project Mercury. 27 July: Delegates from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaya, Hong Kong, Sarawak, India, Pakistan, Brunei and North Borneo met in Kuala Lumpur to discuss the construction of a proposed new telephone link between Australia and SE Asia: the Seacom cable. 23 September: Sir Giles Chippindall appointed Chief Commissioner of OTC. November: 5-unit code equipment installed at the Cottesloe cable station. 12 December: The new trans-Atlantic telephone cable, Cantat, opened. 1962 March: Commonwealth Telecommunications Conference began in London to discuss satellite communications. 19 April: Shore end of the Compac cable landed at Bondi Beach.