Whitsundays: Notices to Mariners

Publication and resources

• Advice: Queensland watersPDF Popular

  06/05/2020: Declared Public Health Emergency direction

• Advice - Prescribed Burning Whitsundays April ...PDF

  15/04/2020: Hook Island and Whitsunday Island, Prescribed burning

• 134 T of 2020PDF

  14/04/2020: Surprise Rock and Platypus Rock—buoyage replaced in position. AUS charts affected: 252, 253, 254, 824

• 116 T of 2020PDF Popular

  01/04/2020 - Hayman Island Marina - Closure of Hayman Island Resort and Marina - AUS charts affected: 254

• 108 T of 2020PDF Popular

  30/03/2020 - Hamilton Island Marina - Closure of Hamilton Island Resort and Marina - AUS charts affected: 252 253 254 824

• 103 T of 2020PDF Popular

  24/03/2020 - Laguna Quays Marina - Hazard to Navigation - AUS charts affected: 252

• 096 (T) of 2020PDF

  18/03/2020: Hayman Island-Lead lights unlit AUS charts affected: 252, 254

• 029 (T) of 2020PDF Popular

  30/01/2020: Hamilton Island marina—Leading lights temporarily withdrawn AUS charts affected: 254

• 013 of 2020PDF

  16/01/2020: The Beak, Shute Harbour—Beacon restored to normal AUS charts affected: 252, 253, 825

• Advice: Whitsundays pilotage areaPDF Popular

  20/12/2019: Shute Harbour—Sea wall and Pontoon Works

• 435 T of 2019PDF Popular

  2 October 2019, special mark buoy re-established.

• 300 of 2019PDF Popular

  25/06/2019: Tongue Point, Whitsunday Island—beacon established AUS charts affected: 252, 253

• 282 of 2019PDF

  17/06/2019: Hayman Island—beacon lights altered AUS charts affected: 252, 254

• 177 of 2019PDF

  24/04/2019: Shute Harbour, Low Rock—East cardinal beacon reinstated AUS charts affected: 252, 253, 824

• 157 of 2019PDF Popular

  09/04/2019: Dent Passage off Hamilton Island airport runway—flight path caution to vessels AUS charts affected: 252, 253, 254

• 077 T of 2019PDF

  15/02/2019: Abell Point Mooring Grid—sunken vessel AUS charts affected: 252, 253

• 453 T of 2018PDF

  12/11/2018: Cid Harbour—no swimming zone marker buoys AUS charts affected: 252, 253, 824, 825

• Advice: Whitsundays pilotage areaPDF Popular

  07/11/2018: Cid Harbour, Whitsunday Island—marine wildlife hazard

• 325 T of 2018PDF

  20/08/2018: Port of Airlie marina, Muddy Bay—marina berthing arm construction AUS charts affected: 252, 268

• 189 of 2018PDF

  Shute Island, Shute Harbour—port lateral beacon re-established

• 188 of 2018PDF

  Shute Harbour—Channel No.6 beacon re-established

• 176 of 2018PDF

  Whitsundays pilotage area—change of Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) VHF radio channel

• 075 of 2018PDF

  Pioneer Bay—re-establishment of the anchorage area

• 074 of 2018PDF

  Hamilton Island—establishment of new anchorage areas

• 410 T of 2017PDF

  Shute Harbour, Low Rock—east cardinal beacon replaced

• 249 T of 2017PDF

  Shute Harbour—lead lights temporarily unlit

• 179 T of 2017PDF

  Unsafe Passage, Daydream Island—lateral lead lights replaced by port and starboard lateral mark buoys

• 156 T of 2017PDF

  Daydream Island, Whitsunday passage—unsafe passage lead lights

• 073 T of 2016PDF

  Nunga Island, South Eastern end Solway Passage—sunken vessel

• 021 of 2016PDF

  Hayman Island Passage, between Hayman and Hook Islands, The Whitsundays—beacon permanently withdrawn