Ponta da Galheta light at 27-34.55S 048-24.99W is unlit until 31 August. Cancellation on 1 September 2026.
South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 434/26
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 2026-03-05 00:48Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-01 15:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
- Location covered
- South Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -27.576, -48.416. 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 South Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2026-03-05 00:48Z
- status
- Cancelled notice
- self-cancels
- 2026-09-01 00:01Z
- sea
- South Atlantic Ocean
- position
- -27.576, -48.416
- nearest port
- Navegantes · 43 nm
- source
- NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z
Original warning text
SOUTH ATLANTIC. BRAZIL. DNC 01. 1. PONTA DA GALHETA LIGHT 27-34.55S 048-24.99W UNLIT UNTIL 31 AUG. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 010001Z SEP 26.
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.
- 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.
- CANCEL THIS MSG
- The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
- Date-time group (DTG)
- A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
251 within 180 nm since 1998 · 2 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.
- Itapeva light 29-33.40S 049-53.37W unlit until 07 mar 272026-09-09
- Ponta da galheta light 27-34.55S 048-24.99W unlit until 01 dec2024-06-05
- Ilha dos lobos light 28-26.77S 048-42.45W unlit until 14 oct2024-04-17
- Caraguata light in 25-34.38S 048-19.23W unlit until 30 sep2024-04-03
- RACON at santa marta light in 28-36.23S 048-48.76W inoperative until 18 jun 242023-12-21
- Ponta dos naufragados light 27-50.13S 048-34.12W unlit until 05 jun 242023-12-08
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
147 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-24 21:30Z; 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.