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Fyr Channel () is a channel wide between the southwest end of Signy Island and
Moe Island Moe Island is an island long in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica, separated from the south-west end of Signy Island by Fyr Channel. It was charted by Captain Petter Sørlle in 1912–13, and named after M. Thoralf Moe of Sandefjord, N ...
, in the
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 PeninsulaPetter Sorlle in 1912, and corrected by
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in 1913, but the generic term channel is approved because of the small size of this feature. The Corral Whaling Co. of
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, a subsidiary of Messrs. Christensen and Co., Corral, Chile, operated the steam whaler ''Fyr'' in the South Orkney Islands in 1912–13.


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Channels of the Southern Ocean Bodies of water of the South Orkney Islands {{SouthOrkneys-geo-stub