World-Wide Navigational Warning Service · Arctic area

NAVAREA XVIII

Coordinated by Canada (Canadian Coast Guard); covers the eastern Canadian Arctic, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait.

NAVAREA XVIII covers the eastern Canadian Arctic, including Baffin Bay and the approaches from Davis Strait. Canada coordinates it, and like the other Arctic areas its warnings follow the summer season.

Warnings here come from NGA HYDROARC and NAVAREA IV relays that name NAVAREA XVIII as their source.

own list read: no — via NGA relays only
attributed by: named in an NGA relay 466

What the archive shows

466 warnings in this archive are attributed to NAVAREA XVIII, issued from 2010-07-02 to 2023-12-09. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

All of them are NGA relays (HYDROLANT, HYDROPAC or HYDROARC) that name NAVAREA XVIII as their source; the area's own list is not in this archive.

Other accounts for 212 of 466 recorded messages (45%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

The largest yearly count is 2016, with 44 warnings.

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

They reached this archive through HYDROARC (465) and HYDROPAC (1).

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Where they lie · 8 sea areas

Most recently issued

Neighbouring areas

NAVAREA XVII — the western Canadian Arctic and the Beaufort Sea
NAVAREA XIX — the Norwegian Sea, the Barents Sea and Svalbard

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Counts are warnings attributed to NAVAREA XVIII 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.