Noup Head light in the Orkney Islands has its range reduced to 12 miles.
North Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 1510/26
What this record establishes
Cancelled notice · 2026-08-28 19:00Z
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 2026-08-05 22:11Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-18 14:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 59.332, -3.070. 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 North Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2026-08-05 22:11Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 59.332, -3.070
- nearest port
- Wick · 54 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
NORTH ATLANTIC. ORKNEY ISLANDS. NOUP HEAD LIGHT 59-19.90N 003-04.20W RANGE REDUCED TO 12 MILES.
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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
1611 within 180 nm since 1998 · 1 in the last 12 months · 0 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.
- All navigational aids at platform 15/17-A 58-25.00N 000-20.10E inoperative2024-05-01
- Mrcc shetland mf r/t and dsc services at collafirth hill site 60-32.00N 001-23.50W off air2024-04-01
- Cgoc stornoway mf r/t services off air at: a. butt of lewis site 58-27.7N 006-13.9W2024-03-02
- Flannan isles light 58-17.30N 007-35.30W unreliable2024-02-17
- Copinsay light 58-53.80N 002-40.20W unreliable2024-02-17
- Cgoc shetland mf dsc services at st margarets hope 58-46.9N 002-56.7W off air2024-01-27
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
No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.
Worldwide in the collected sources
138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 10:20Z; 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.