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Lihou reef light 17-07.8S 152-08.5E unlit

Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 1438/19

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2019-05-04 09:04Z

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 X 20/19 290747Z APR 19.. Issued 2019-04-29 09:42Z. 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 -17.130, 152.142. 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
2019-04-29 09:42Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA X 20/19 290747Z APR 19.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA X · named as the source of this relay
sea
Coral Sea
position
-17.130, 152.142
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CORAL SEA.
DNC 05.
CHART 74004.
LIHOU REEF LIGHT 17-07.8S 152-08.5E UNLIT.

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Chart reference
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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
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Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices

18 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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.

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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

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 21:51Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

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

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