The fifth chapter, “A Network of Islands: Interconnecting the Pacific,” charts how network nodes are shaped by the politics, histories, and geographies of islands across the Pacific. Although existing representations of islands and networks reinforce a conceptual opposition between the two, making it difficult to see both the interconnectedness of islands and the importance of network maintenance, this chapter recasts islands as core components of cable systems. It focuses on three critical points, past and present, in transpacific traffic: Guam, critically tied to American military extensions; Fiji, a key site for British colonization of the Pacific; and Yap, a former node in the German cable network. In these cases, I show how networks have benefited from the island’s insulating properties and, in turn, how islands have become sites of interconnection, places where reciprocity can be established between oceanic, cultural, and communications currents. I argue that emerging as a network hub, becoming more than an endpoint for signal traffic, has involved triangulating existing sets of circulations, whether transpacific, regional, or local.