Nav aids

Hay point light 21-17.20S 149-16.60E unlit

Coral Sea · HYDROPAC 4030/23

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 297/23 270813Z DEC 23.. Issued 2023-12-27 08:29Z. 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
Coral Sea. The parsed report position is -21.287, 149.277. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2023-12-27 08:29Z
status
Archived notice
authority
AUSCOAST 297/23 270813Z DEC 23.
issued by
AUSCOAST
sea
Coral Sea
position
-21.287, 149.277
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CORAL SEA.
AUSTRALIA.
DNC 05.
HAY POINT LIGHT 21-17.20S 149-16.60E UNLIT.

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DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
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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.

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

192 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

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

Record snapshot 2026-09-29 08:18Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →

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