Moyes Point

	Moyes Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	60 ° 44 ′ S , 45 ° 40 ′ W Coordinates: 60 ° 44 ′ S , 45 ° 40 ′ W
location	Signy Island , South Orkney Islands
Waters	Bedlam Cove
Waters 2	Fyr Channel

The Moyes Point is a headland in southwest of Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It forms the east side of the southeast entrance to the Fyr Channel and the western boundary of the entrance to Bedlam Cove .

Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations first mapped it in 1933. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys between 1956 and 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1959 after William Moyes (1887–1950), representative of the British government on Signy Island from 1912 to 1913.

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