RACON at browse island light 14-06.6S 123-32.8E inoperative
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 1860/03
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2003-10-27 11:10Z
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 269/03 262236Z OCT 03. Issued 2003-10-26 23:45Z. 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
- Indian Ocean. The parsed report position is -14.110, 123.547. 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
- 2003-10-26 23:45Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSCOAST 269/03 262236Z OCT 03
- issued by
- AUSCOAST
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -14.110, 123.547
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
CHART 74455 (3RD ED). RACON AT BROWSE ISLAND LIGHT 14-06.6S 123-32.8E INOPERATIVE.
Reading this warning
- Chart reference
- The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
- 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.
- 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.
- Inoperative / unreliable / off air
- An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
35 within 180 nm since 2000 · 0 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.
- Adele island light 15-30.62S 123-09.46E unreliable2025-02-09
- Cape leveque light 16-23.8S 122-55.7E unlit2021-11-16
- Cape leveque light 16-23.8S 122-55.7E unreliable2021-10-11
- Browse island light 14-06.5S 123-32.9E unlit2021-10-07
- RACON at browse island light 14-06.5S 123-32.9E inoperative2021-10-07
- Adele island light 15-30.6S 123-09.5E unreliable2021-10-04
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
134 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-04 05:09Z; 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.