Fyr Channel
| Fyr Channel | ||
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| Connects waters | Weddell Sea | |
| with water | Weddell Sea | |
| Separates land mass | Signy Island | |
| of land mass | Moe Island | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 60 ° 43 '44 " S , 45 ° 40' 23" W | |
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The Fyr Channel is a 310 m wide canal in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It runs between the southwest end of Signy Island and Moe Island .
The Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle mapped it between 1912 and 1913 and named it Fyr Strait . As such, the channel is marked on a map by Sørlle's compatriot Hans Engelbert Borge (1873–1946), captain of the whaler Polynesia . It is named after the whaler Fyr of the two Norwegian whaling entrepreneurs Bernhard and Wilhelm Jebsen from Bergen . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee made an amendment to the name on March 31, 1955, which the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names took over in the same year.
Web links
- Fyr Channel in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fyr Channel on geographic.org (English)