Nav aids

21 yellow buoys flashing yellow every 1.5 seconds established in Timor Sea, Australia, in an area bounded by coordinates.

Timor Sea · HYDROPAC 1567/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-23 14:45Z

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 2026-05-28 03:25Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-18 14:02Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Timor Sea. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Timor Sea →

issued: 2026-05-28 03:25Z
status: Cancelled notice
sea: Timor Sea
position: -10.225, 129.342
nearest port: Darwin · 162 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

TIMOR SEA.
AUSTRALIA.
21 BUOYS, YELLOW, FL Y 1.5 SEC,
ESTABLISHED IN AREA BOUND BY
09-51.00S 129-58.00E, 10-36.00S 129-58.00E,
10-36.00S 128-43.00E, 09-51.00S 128-43.00E.

Reading this warning

Light characteristic: The coded description of a light — FL W 10 SEC 8 METERS 8 MILES — giving its rhythm, colour, period, height and range.
Area bound by: Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
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.

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

56 within 180 nm since 2000 · 3 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.

Cape hotham light 12-02.78S 131-17.37E unlit2026-09-22
Cape hotham light Q3315 in position 12-02.78S 131-17.37E unlit2026-09-22
Northwest vernon island light 12-02.90S 130-59.80E unreliable2024-11-22
Northwest vernon island light 12-02.93S 130-59.78E unreliable2023-06-15
Cape hotham light 12-02.78S 131-17.37E unreliable2022-11-08
Cape don light 11-18.48S 131-45.92E unreliable2022-09-09

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 05:30Z; 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.