Frank Coffee

“ The laying of the Sydney-Auckland Cable in 1912 has further greatly enhanced the value of the service to and from Australia. This secures duplicated routes for all traffic given transit at Norfolk Island, and forms a great factor for avoidance of slow transit to both International and Intercolonial traffic. The route of the cable is as follows:
As a result of their labors, the contractors for the cable company found that the bed of the Pacific Ocean was one continuous row of hills from Brisbane to Norfolk Island, where the cable rests at an average depth of 2,500 fathoms ”

“ To render it immune from attack by Teredos—a marine molluscan borer—which is active to a depth of four hundred fathoms, the cable has to be provided with a special brass tape binding. This also prevents any damage from fish bites, a further menace that is found in the tropics. ”