Eel reef light 12-24.50S 143-22.30E unlit
Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 1345/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-01-25 01:24Z
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) · AUSCOAST 104/23 231346Z APR 23.. Issued 2023-04-23 13:57Z. 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
- Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -12.408, 143.372. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- issued
- 2023-04-23 13:57Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSCOAST 104/23 231346Z APR 23.
- issued by
- AUSCOAST
- sea
- Coral Sea
- position
- -12.408, 143.372
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CORAL SEA. AUSTRALIA. DNC 05. EEL REEF LIGHT 12-24.50S 143-22.30E UNLIT.
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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
376 within 180 nm since 1998 · 7 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.
- Duyfken point light in 12-34.15S 141-35.98E unlit2026-09-22
- Duyfken point light K3297 in position 12-34.15S 141-35.98E unlit2026-09-21
- Duyfken point light in position 12-34.15S 141-35.98E unreliable2026-09-20
- Eden reef light in 14-04.63S 143-55.01E unreliable2026-08-28
- Eden reef light K3226.6 in position 14-04.63S 143-55.01E unreliable2026-08-28
- South barrow islet light 14-20.79S 144-39.16E unlit2026-04-17
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-30 04:13Z; 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.