Nav aids

At Point Higgins, Alaska, 55-27N 131-49W, U.S. Coast Guard communication facility transmit and receive services are off air.

The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia · NAVAREA XII 429/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-08 17:45Z

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 2026-06-16 20:18Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-02 12:47Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. The parsed report position is 55.450, -131.817. 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 The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia →

issued: 2026-06-16 20:18Z
status: Cancelled notice
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XII
sea: The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia
position: 55.450, -131.817
nearest port: Ketchikan · 8 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

NORTH PACIFIC.
ALASKA.
USCG COMMUNICATION FACILITY PT HIGGINS
55-27.00N 131-49.00W TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE
SERVICES OFF AIR.

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.
Inoperative / unreliable / off air: An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.

All warning terms →

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

184 within 180 nm since 2006 · 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.

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

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 06:28Z; 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.