Mallacoota dgps station 37-34.1S 149-44.0E inoperative
Bass Strait · HYDROPAC 4351/17
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2017-12-12 01:46Z
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 234/17 112354Z DEC 17.. Issued 2017-12-12 00:10Z. 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
- Bass Strait. The parsed report position is -37.568, 149.733. 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 4351/17 and this msg, station restoredlater cancellation notice
- issued
- 2017-12-12 00:10Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- AUSCOAST 234/17 112354Z DEC 17.
- issued by
- AUSCOAST
- sea
- Bass Strait
- position
- -37.568, 149.733
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
TASMAN SEA. BASS STRAIT. AUSTRALIA-SOUTHEAST COAST. DNC 05. CHART 75035. MALLACOOTA DGPS STATION 37-34.1S 149-44.0E INOPERATIVE.
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.
- Chart reference
- The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
- GNSS / GPS
- Satellite positioning — GPS and other systems — and the testing, jamming and interference that make it unreliable in an area.
- 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
150 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.
- Perpendicular point light 35-05.65S 150-48.25E temporarily changed to fl (3) w 20 sec2026-08-14
- Point perpendicular light temporarily changed to fl (3) w 20 sec in 35-05.65S 150-48.25E2023-08-18
- Gabo island light 37-34.00S 149-55.00E unreliable2023-04-10
- Point perpendicular light temporarily changed to fl (3) w 20 sec in 35-05.70S 150-48.20E2022-08-18
- Cliffy island light 38-57.05S 146-42.34E unlit2022-05-18
- Cliffy island light 38-57.1S 146-42.4E unreliable2022-05-01
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
- 8 virtual AIS navigation marks in an area bounded by 38-23S to 38-37S and 148-25E to 148-37E inoperativeOther · 80.2 nm
- Cable operations in progress until further notice by cableship responder within five miles of trackline…Cable ops · 96.8 nm
- Special purpose vessel responder / V7CY9 / 538001582 conducting cable laying operations 5 nm either side of…Cable ops · 96.8 nm
- Drill rig valaris 107/A8GS5 in position 38-17.79S 147-40.57E 2.5 nm clearance requestedSurveys · 106.8 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
134 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 09:29Z; 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.