RACON at north island light 28-17.88S 113-35.38E unreliable and light unlit
Indian Ocean · HYDROPAC 3240/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-01-25 01:24Z
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 243/23 110636Z OCT 23.. Issued 2023-10-11 07:05Z. 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 -28.298, 113.590. 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
- North island light 28-17.88S 113-35.38E unreliablecancelled by this notice
- Cancel HYDROPAC 993/22, 1149/23, 1345/23, 1440/23, 1873/23, 1874/23, 2630/23, 2787/23, 2813/23, 2880/23,…later cancellation notice
- issued
- 2023-10-11 07:05Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSCOAST 243/23 110636Z OCT 23.
- issued by
- AUSCOAST
- sea
- Indian Ocean
- position
- -28.298, 113.590
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN INDIAN OCEAN. AUSTRALIA. DNC 04. 1. RACON AT NORTH ISLAND LIGHT 28-17.88S 113-35.38E UNRELIABLE AND LIGHT UNLIT. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 3229/23.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
36 within 180 nm since 1998 · 4 in the last 12 months · 1 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.
- Four buoys, yellow, fl y 5 sec, established in vicinity 29-27.00S 114-52.18E2026-08-14
- 4 X yellow surface buoys, fl y 5 sec, established within 0.3NM of 29-27.00S 114-52.18E2026-08-14
- Platform cliff head 29-26.99S 114-52.18E unlit2026-07-24
- Cliff head platform light Q1754-8 in position 29-26.99S 114-52.18E unlit2026-07-24
- Pelsaert island light 28-59.13S 113-57.74E unlit2024-04-27
- Pelsaert island light 28-59.11S 113-57.74E unlit2024-04-09
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-29 04:13Z; 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.