Nav aids

RACON at montravel rock buoy 63-08.6S 058-02.5W inoperative

Southern Ocean · HYDROLANT 3166/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-03-31 15:35Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA XV 231/16 261152Z NOV 16.. Issued 2016-11-26 11:53Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Southern Ocean. The parsed report position is -63.143, -58.042. 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 Southern Ocean →

issued: 2016-11-26 11:53Z
status: Archived notice
authority: NAVAREA XV 231/16 261152Z NOV 16.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XV · named as the source of this relay
sea: Southern Ocean
position: -63.143, -58.042
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC.
BRANSFIELD STRAIT.
ANTARCTICA.
DNC 29.
CHART 29105.
RACON AT MONTRAVEL ROCK BUOY 63-08.6S 058-02.5W
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.
Chart reference: The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
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

23 within 180 nm since 2000 · 0 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.

RACON at islote montravel 63-08.60S 058-02.40W inoperative2023-02-06
Racons inoperative: a. barrios island 63-19.5S 057-57.0W2022-03-23
RACON at montravel rock 63-19.5S 057-57.0W inoperative2022-03-22
RACON at barrios island 63-19.1S 057-57.2W inoperative2022-03-22
RACON (m) 63-19.5S 057-57.0W inoperative2021-11-24
RACON at islote montravel light 63-08.6S 058-02.4W inoperative2021-11-11

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

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 20:06Z; 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.