Port walcott C2 buoy light in position 20-25.89S 117-23.31E unreliable
Indian Ocean · AUSCOAST 304/26
What this record establishes
Listed in force
The latest collected record lists this warning as active. This is the status of the notice, not a live observation of conditions at the location.
- Source and dates
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator). Issued 2026-09-28 09:37Z. First collected 2026-09-28 09:53Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-28 11:38Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -20.431, 117.388. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-09-28 09:37Z
- status
- Listed in force
- authority
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator)
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X
- issued by
- JRCC AUSTRALIA
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -20.431, 117.388
- source
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · first seen 2026-09-28 09:53Z
Original warning text
PORT WALCOTT C2 BUOY LIGHT IN POSITION 20-25.89S 117-23.31E UNRELIABLE
Reading this warning
- Position (degrees and minutes)
- How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
- Inoperative / unreliable / off air
- An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.
Conditions at the position · now
loading…
MET Norway · NOAA WaveWatch III · HYCOM · GEBCO 2020 · model data at the centroid, not an observation
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
168 within 180 nm since 1998 · 3 in the last 12 months · 1 listed in force now
Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.
- Eight buoys, yellow, fl w 7 sec, four meters in height, established in area within one mile of 19-45.73S…2026-02-27
- Eight buoys, yellow, fl w 7 sec, four meters in height, established in area within one mile of 19-57.09S…2025-12-22
- RACON at port hedland C1 light in 19-59.49S 118-26.17E inoperative2023-05-24
- Mary anne reef light 21-15.70S 115-27.80E unlit2023-05-08
- RACON at port hedland C1 light 19-59.49S 118-26.17E inoperative2023-03-10
- Great sandy island light 21-11.88S 115-38.28E unlit2022-12-13
Month of issue in the collected archive
All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
- Special purpose vessel ve constructor / H9YT / 373335000 conducting underwater operations in an area bounded…Surveys · 80.5 nm
- Underwater operations in progress until further notice by vessel ve constructor in area bound by 19-12.00S…Surveys · 80.5 nm
- Special purpose vessel fugro kwilena / MLOV8 / 503147420 conducting underwater operations in an area bounded…Surveys · 93.9 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
140 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-28 11:45Z; source collection times vary.
Nav aids
Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →
Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.