AVURNAV Noumea
Recorded as: AVURNAV NOUMEA
Urgent notices to mariners issued by the French maritime authority for New Caledonia.
AVURNAV — avis urgents aux navigateurs, urgent notices to mariners — are the navigational warnings of the French maritime authorities, issued for metropolitan France's coasts and for overseas territories from the Caribbean to the Pacific. They cover firing exercises, obstructions, lights out of service and rescue cases.
What the archive holds
274 messages in this archive record AVURNAV NOUMEA as their authority, issued from 2010-12-17 to 2024-04-08. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.
Exercises accounts for 220 of 274 recorded messages (80%), the largest warning type group in this selection.
All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA VIII.
Located messages lie in 4 sea areas, most often Coral Sea, South Pacific Ocean and North Pacific Ocean.
The largest yearly count is 2012, with 44 messages. Collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17, so those years are not comparable.
Across all years its messages are issued most often in March and least often in January.
They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (274).
Messages by year of issue
By month of issue, all years
Warning types
Where
Most recently issued
- HYDROPAC 1116/24 · Exercises · Coral Sea2024-04-07Gunnery exercises 100300Z to 100700Z apr in area within ten miles of 22-07.00S 167-27.00E
- HYDROPAC 921/24 · Exercises · Coral Sea2024-03-20Hazardous operations 242100Z to 250100Z mar in area within ten miles of 22-07.00S 167-27.00E
- HYDROPAC 547/24 · Exercises · Coral Sea2024-02-16Gunnery exercises 190200Z to 190800Z feb in area within 20 miles of 23-00.00S 165-58.00E
- HYDROPAC 3632/23 · Exercises · Coral Sea2023-11-18Gunnery exercises 220400Z to 230100Z nov in area within 20 miles of 23-00.00S 165-58.00E
- HYDROPAC 3585/23 · Exercises · Coral Sea2023-11-14Gunnery exercises 192100Z to 200700Z nov in area within 20 miles of 23-00.0S 165-58.0E
- HYDROPAC 3574/23 · Exercises · Coral Sea2023-11-13Gunnery exercises 162100Z to 170700Z nov in area within 20 miles of 23-00.00S 165-58.00E
- HYDROPAC 3181/23 · Derelicts · Coral Sea2023-10-06Derelict seven meter vessel adrift in vicinity 16-05.07S 165-49.60E at 052130Z oct
- HYDROPAC 2159/23 · Exercises · Coral Sea2023-07-02Gunnery exercises 040215Z to 040345Z jul in area within ten miles of 22-42.0S 166-00.00E
Earliest in the archive
Other french maritime authority (avurnav)s in NAVAREA VIII
Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.