Nav aids

Duyfken Point Light in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, at 12-34.15S 141-35.98E is unlit, and Hydropac warning 2725/26 is cancelled.

Arafura Sea · HYDROPAC 2736/26

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 2026-09-22 00:19Z. First collected 2026-09-23 15:02Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-24 11:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Arafura Sea. The parsed report position is -12.569, 141.600. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Arafura Sea

issued
2026-09-22 00:19Z
status
Cancelled notice
sea
Arafura Sea
position
-12.569, 141.600
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-09-23 15:02Z

Original warning text

GULF OF CARPENTARIA.
AUSTRALIA.
1. DUYFKEN POINT LIGHT IN 12-34.15S 141-35.98E
   UNLIT.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 2725/26.

Reading this warning

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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.

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

342 within 180 nm since 1998 · 6 in the last 12 months · 1 listed in force now

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26

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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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M
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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

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

Record snapshot 2026-09-24 11:56Z; 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.