Naval command · France

French Navy, French Guiana (COMAR Guyane)

Recorded as: COMAR GUYANE

The French Navy command in French Guiana; its warnings include the sea areas closed for launches from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou.

Naval commands announce the areas and times of exercises, firings and other operations that other ships should avoid. The same areas are often used again and again, so the archive shows how regularly a range is active.

What the archive holds

554 messages in this archive record COMAR GUYANE as their authority, issued from 1999-07-30 to 2017-08-04. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Missiles accounts for 299 of 554 recorded messages (54%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

Attributed to NAVAREAs, they fall mostly in NAVAREA IV (227), NAVAREA XII (34) and NAVAREA III (2).

Located messages lie in 12 sea areas, most often North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2002, with 61 messages.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in December and least often in January.

They reached this archive through HYDROLANT (239), NAVAREA IV (227), NAVAREA XII (34) and HYDROPAC (33).

Messages by year of issue

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By month of issue, all years

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA IV 227 · NAVAREA XII 34 · NAVAREA III 2 · NAVAREA V 2

Most recently issued

  1. HYDROARC 185/17 · Other2017-08-03
    Cancel HYDROARC 174/17 and this msg, operations completed
  2. HYDROPAC 2637/17 · Other2017-08-03
    Cancel HYDROPAC 2560/17 and this msg, operations completed
  3. NAVAREA IV 646/17 · Other2017-08-03
    Cancel NAVAREA IV 630/17 and this msg, operations completed
  4. HYDROPAC 2560/17 · Exercises · Indian Ocean2017-07-28
    Hazardous operations 0407Z to 0524Z daily 02 aug thru 02 sep in area bound by 07-00S 090-05E, 18-45S…
  5. HYDROARC 174/17 · Exercises · Greenland Sea2017-07-28
    Hazardous operations 0206Z to 0323Z daily 02 aug thru 02 sep in area bound by 76-30N 159-28E, 76-09N…
  6. NAVAREA IV 630/17 · Missiles · North Atlantic Ocean2017-07-28
    Hazardous operations, rocket launching 02 aug thru 02 sep daily: a. 0058Z to 0229Z in area bound by…
  7. HYDROLANT 1380/17 · Missiles · North Atlantic Ocean2017-05-01
    Hazardous operations, space debris 2029Z to 0114Z commencing daily 04 may thru 05 jun in area bound by…
  8. NAVAREA IV 353/17 · Missiles · North Atlantic Ocean2017-05-01
    Hazardous operations, rocket launching 2021Z to 0029Z commencing daily 04 may thru 04 jun in area bound by…

Earliest in the archive

  1. HYDROLANT 1567/99 · Missiles · North Atlantic Ocean1999-07-30
    Rocket launching 2200Z to 0130Z commencing daily 04 aug thru 05 sep: a. within 12 miles of coast between…

Other naval commands in NAVAREA IV

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