The Creal Reef Light at 20-31.87S 150-22.68E is unlit.
Coral Sea · AUSCOAST 306/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-09-30 19:08Z
This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.
- Source and dates
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator). Issued 2026-09-30 18:49Z. First collected 2026-09-30 18:53Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-30 18:53Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -20.531, 150.378. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
- issued
- 2026-09-30 18:49Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- authority
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority — JRCC Australia (NAVAREA X coordinator)
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA X
- issued by
- JRCC AUSTRALIA
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -20.531, 150.378
- source
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority NAVAREA X + AUSCOAST (CC BY 4.0) · first seen 2026-09-30 18:53Z
Original warning text
CREAL REEF LIGHT IN POSITION 20-31.87S 150-22.68E UNLIT
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.
- Unlit / extinguished
- A light, buoy or structure that is not showing its charted light.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
193 within 180 nm since 1999 · 2 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.
- Creal reef RACON alrs vol 2 K3052 in position 20-31.87S 150-22.68E inoperative2026-09-30
- Lights unreliable: a. white tip reef range, front 19-55.47S 150-16.80E2024-11-16
- White tip reef range front and rear lights 19-55.47S 150-16.09E unlit2024-09-28
- Eshelby island light 20-01.02S 148-37.59E unreliable2024-04-16
- Edward island light 20-15.02S 149-10.44E unlit2024-02-13
- Edward island light 20-15.02S 149-10.44E unlit2024-02-13
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 01:44Z; 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.