Nav aids

RACON at Tuktoyaktuk Island Light (69-27.35N 132-59.97W) in Beaufort Sea is inoperative.

Beaufort Sea · HYDROARC 180/25

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-08 17:45Z

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
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2025-10-03 00:23Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-01 15:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Beaufort Sea. The parsed report position is 69.456, -133.000. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Beaufort Sea →

issued
2025-10-03 00:23Z
status
Cancelled notice
sea
Beaufort Sea
position
69.456, -133.000
nearest port
Tuktoyaktuk · 1 nm
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

BEAUFORT SEA.
CANADA.
DNC 27.
RACON AT TUKTOYAKTUK ISLAND LIGHT
69-27.35N 132-59.97W INOPERATIVE.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
RACON (radar beacon)
A radar beacon on a buoy, lighthouse or structure that answers a ship's radar with a Morse-code mark on the screen.
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.

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Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices

51 within 180 nm since 2010 · 7 in the last 12 months · 2 listed in force now

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25
26

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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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M
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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

137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 04:56Z; 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.