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NAVAREA XIX

Coordinated by Norway (Norwegian Coastal Administration (Kystverket)); covers the Norwegian Sea, the Barents Sea and Svalbard.

NAVAREA XIX covers the Norwegian Sea, the Barents Sea and the waters around Svalbard. Norway's Coastal Administration coordinates it. Military exercises, rocket and missile activity and Arctic survey work appear often.

The in-force list is collected directly from Kystverket; older warnings come from NGA HYDROARC relays.

own list read
Kystverket (Norway)
attributed by
own series 15 · named in an NGA relay 537

What the archive shows

552 warnings in this archive are attributed to NAVAREA XIX, issued from 2010-11-25 to 2026-09-20. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

15 come from the area's own series and 537 are NGA relays that name NAVAREA XIX as their source.

Missiles accounts for 154 of 552 recorded messages (28%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

The stations and services named as originators most often are KYSTVERKET — NORWEGIAN COASTAL ADMINISTRATION (15) and WZ (1).

The largest yearly count is 2012, with 61 warnings. Collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17, so those years are not comparable.

Across all years its warnings are issued most often in September and least often in January.

They reached this archive through HYDROARC (428), HYDROLANT (109) and NAVAREA XIX (15).

Attributed warnings by year of issue

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Warning types

Originating stations and services · 2

The authority recorded with each message: the range, rescue centre, coast radio station or national service that issued it.

Where they lie · 4 sea areas

Most recently issued

  1. NAVAREA 19 118/26 · Missiles · Norwegian Sea2026-09-19 · KYSTVERKET — NORWEGIAN COASTAL ADMINISTRATION
    0700 - 1500 UTC daily from 21 to 25 sept 26
  2. NAVAREA 19 117/26 · Other2026-09-18 · KYSTVERKET — NORWEGIAN COASTAL ADMINISTRATION
    Cancel NAVAREA XIX 111/26 2. cancel this warnings
  3. NAVAREA 19 115/26 · Other2026-09-17 · KYSTVERKET — NORWEGIAN COASTAL ADMINISTRATION
    Cancel NAVAREA XIX 113/26 2. cancel this warning
  4. NAVAREA 19 114/26 · Other2026-09-16 · KYSTVERKET — NORWEGIAN COASTAL ADMINISTRATION
    NAVAREA XIX 114/26 1.THE norwegian government has decided that russian fishing vessels only have access to…
  5. NAVAREA 19 113/26 · Missiles2026-09-13 · KYSTVERKET — NORWEGIAN COASTAL ADMINISTRATION
    NAVAREA XIX 113/26 norwegian sea barents sea 1. andoeya space will conduct launch operations from 14 to sept…
  6. NAVAREA 19 111/26 · Nav aids · Norwegian Sea2026-09-08 · KYSTVERKET — NORWEGIAN COASTAL ADMINISTRATION
    Norwegian sea 1.GPS/GNSS jamming exercise from 09 to 18 sept 26
  7. NAVAREA 19 110/26 · Other2026-09-06 · KYSTVERKET — NORWEGIAN COASTAL ADMINISTRATION
    Cancel NAVAREA XIX 108/26 2. cancel this warnings
  8. NAVAREA 19 108/26 · Missiles · Greenland Sea2026-09-01 · KYSTVERKET — NORWEGIAN COASTAL ADMINISTRATION
    Norwegian sea grennland sea 1. rocket launch operation will be conducted

Neighbouring areas

All 21 NAVAREAs → · What a NAVAREA is →

Counts are warnings attributed to NAVAREA XIX by their series or by the source an NGA relay names, recounted 2026-09-24; the area's full traffic is larger. Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA broadcasts.

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