Although the great ocean-crossing cables received the most publicity, the short ones have been especially important in binding a nation or a group of islands together.

	West Indies, 1920s Courtesy of Cable & Wireless Archive, Porthcurno, Cornwall, Great Britain
Greek Islands, about 1890 National Museum of American History
	South America, about 1909 Copy of original in map collection, Yale University Library
Malay Archipelago, about 1890 National Museum of American History

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