French maritime authority (AVURNAV) · France

AVURNAV Papeete

Recorded as: AVURNAV PAPEETE

Urgent notices to mariners issued by the French maritime authority for French Polynesia.

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

302 messages in this archive record AVURNAV PAPEETE as their authority, issued from 2011-04-13 to 2024-05-08. 1 of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Exercises accounts for 215 of 302 recorded messages (71%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA XII.

Located messages lie in 1 sea area, most often South Pacific Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2020, with 49 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 September and least often in July.

They reached this archive through HYDROPAC (301) and NAVAREA XII (1).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA XII 1

Newest in force · 1

  1. HYDROPAC 462/24 · Nav aids · South Pacific Ocean2024-02-08 · in force
    Pointe venus light 17-29.70S 149-29.66W unlit

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROPAC 1530/24 · Exercises · South Pacific Ocean2024-05-07
    Gunnery exercises 091800Z to 100300Z may in area bound by 16-30.00S 149-36.00W, 16-37.00S 150-08.00W,…
  2. HYDROPAC 1480/24 · Derelicts · South Pacific Ocean2024-05-03
    Derelict 46 foot M/V poe iti VI semi-submerged and adrift in 17-20.00S 150-27.00W at 031057Z may
  3. HYDROPAC 1431/24 · Exercises · South Pacific Ocean2024-05-01
    Gunnery exercises 052000Z to 052200Z may in area bound by 22-30.00S 151-45.00W, 22-15.00S 151-45.00W,…
  4. HYDROPAC 1392/24 · Debris · South Pacific Ocean2024-04-27
    20 foot long logs adrift in vicinity 17-18.00S 149-49.00W at 270600Z apr
  5. HYDROPAC 1389/24 · Other · South Pacific Ocean2024-04-27
    Tree trunks, six meters long, adrift in vicinity 17-18.00S 149-49.00W at 270600Z apr
  6. HYDROPAC 1144/24 · Exercises · South Pacific Ocean2024-04-09
    Gunnery exercises 112100Z to 112300Z apr in area bound by 17-13.00S 149-48.00W, 16-37.00S 150-08.00W,…
  7. HYDROPAC 1032/24 · Exercises · South Pacific Ocean2024-03-31
    Gunnery exercises 010200Z to 010300Z apr in area bound by 21-40.48S 138-59.18W, 21-50.12S 139-02.30W,…
  8. HYDROPAC 761/24 · Exercises · South Pacific Ocean2024-03-07
    Gunnery exercises 082200Z to 090400Z mar in area bound by 21-55.00S 138-12.00W, 21-55.00S 137-29.00W,…

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROPAC 1140/11 · Exercises · South Pacific Ocean2011-04-13
    Gunnery exercises 172300Z to 180300Z apr in area bound by 17-13S 149-56W, 16-40S 150-05W, 16-33S 149-35W,…

Other french maritime authority (avurnav)s in NAVAREA XII

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.