Pangea is a submarine telecommunications cable system transiting the North Sea connecting UK with Denmark and Netherlands.
[4] It consisted of two widely separated submarine segments - Pangea North and Pangea South.
[3] Pangea North segment of length 685 km had landing points at:[5] From Fanø, an island off the coast of Jutland, there was an onwards section to the mainland, landing near Esbjerg at: Pangea South segment of length 252 km had landing points at:[6] The cable systems were deployed as a part of a larger effort by the network operator, Pangea Europe Limited, to connect countries in the Nordic region.
[7][8] However, the company already had economic difficulties in September 2001,[9] and bankruptcy was filed in 2002 shortly after Pangea was finished.
The cable ownership was transferred first to Arrowhead and Nortel[10] and then to become a part of Linx Telecom (now CITIC Telecom CPC) later in 2004.