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Wikipedia Topic: Pacific Cable Station

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Cable_Station

Improvements needed: Providing references to reliable sources, organizing content, improving grammar and writing style. Article fails to acknowledge what the practice of cable laying is, as it rather focuses on the single remaining station. Through my contributions and referencing sources from class, I am able to provide an enhanced insight on undersea cable laying that will improve the article's overall quality.

Source from class: The Undersea Network

My text contribution for introduction:

Before the nineteenth century, oceanic exploration was rather daunting. With the development of digital technologies like undersea cable laying, the sea transformed from an unfathomable hindrance to a space readily available for scientific and technological observation. Oceanographic expeditions facilitated the technological spanning of the ocean via undersea cables, which enabled the mapping of the seafloor, its inhabitants, and the ocean’s surface. Through this data, the foundations for intercontinental communication were formed and strengthened.

Early telegraphy in Australia

My text contribution for an improved "Early telegraphy" section:

Until 1870, Australia’s only means of communication with the rest of the world was via by sailing along international shipping routes. These voyages lasted months at a time, which stressed the universal need for a communication method that was both faster and more reliable.

In 1864, the Gutta-Percha Company and the cable makers Glass Elliot of Greenwich united to supply a submarine telegraph cable to span the Atlantic Ocean. The long distance communication supported by telegraph systems impacted the world greatly, connecting the Eastern and Western hemispheres for the first time.

This venture was a success and a telegraphic cable between Canada and Australia was proposed with a possible route being suggested in 1899. The passing of the Pacific Cable Act in 1901 resulted in the British, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian Governments financing the cable from Vancouver via Fanning Island, Norfolk Island, Fiji and New Zealand to a final destination on mainland Australia at Southport in Queensland.