Chanka island light 22-32.8N 069-24.6E unlit
Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2646/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-10-03 11:45Z
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 VIII 725/23 161012Z AUG 23.. Issued 2023-08-16 10:37Z. 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
- Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 22.547, 69.410. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 2646/23 and this msglater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2023-08-16 10:37Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 725/23 161012Z AUG 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Arabian Sea
- position
- 22.547, 69.410
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
GULF OF KACHCHH. INDIA. DNC 03. CHANKA ISLAND LIGHT 22-32.8N 069-24.6E 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
163 within 180 nm since 2000 · 1 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.
- Karumbhar island light 22-26.32N 069-35.23E unlit2026-01-14
- Mithapur buoy 22-24.75N 068-51.89E unlit2025-07-07
- Channel buoys temporarily removed in: a. mithapur 22-24.89N 068-51.90E2025-04-04
- North cardinal buoy 22-34.10N 069-18.35E missing2025-04-03
- NAVTEX station veraval (h) 20-54.60N 070-21.00E off air untl 221230Z sep2023-09-21
- Pirothan island light 22-36.20N 069-57.20E unlit2023-07-24
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
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-02 01:25Z; 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.