Fyr Channel is a channel 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) wide between the southwest end of Signy Island

Signy Island

Signy Island is a small sub-antarctic island in the South Orkney Islands group locted at . It is about long and wide and rises to above sea level. Much of the island is permanently covered with ice. The average temperature range is to about in winter...

 and Moe Island

Moe Island

Moe Island is an island 1 nautical mile long separated from the southwest end of Signy Island by Fyr Channel, in the South Orkney Islands. Charted by Captain Petter Sorlle, 1912–13, and named after M. Thoralf Moe of Sandefjord, Norway, a contemporary whaling captain who worked in this area....

, in the South Orkney Islands

South Orkney Islands

The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. They have a total area of about ....

. The name Fyr Strait appears on a manuscript chart drawn by Captain Petter Sorlle in 1912, and corrected by Hans Borge in 1913, but the generic term channel is approved because of the small size of this feature. The Corral Whaling Co. of Bergen, a subsidiary of Messrs. Christensen and Co., Corral, Chile, operated the steam whaler Fyr in the South Orkney Islands in 1912-13.