Nav aids

Racons inoperative: a. barrios island 63-19.5S 057-57.0W

Southern Ocean · HYDROLANT 836/22

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2022-04-26 14:40Z

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 VI 111/22 222042Z MAR 22.. Issued 2022-03-23 13:01Z. 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 -63.229, -58.000. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2022-03-23 13:01Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA VI 111/22 222042Z MAR 22.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA VI · named as the source of this relay
sea
Southern Ocean
position
-63.229, -58.000
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BRANSFIELD STRAIT.
ANTARCTICA.
DNC 29.
1. RACONS INOPERATIVE:
   A. BARRIOS ISLAND 63-19.5S 057-57.0W.
   B. MONTRAVEL ROCK 63-08.0S 058-03.0W.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 827/22, 828/22.

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.
Inoperative / unreliable / off air
An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.
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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROLANT
The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.

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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

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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 2026-10-02 00:07Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →

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