Morgan Island

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, Morgan +‎ island

  • (island in South Carolina): Originally named as Morgan's Island,[1] named alongside the bordering Morgan River. Attested without the possessive marker since at least the mid-1890s.[2][3]
  • (island in the Indian Ocean): First appears as "Morgan Bay" in 1860, of which this island was a part. Later coined as Morgan Islands, plural, to describe the same region. The name for the island stuck during when being surveyed during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1948.

Proper noun

Morgan Island

  1. An island of the Sea Islands, Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, known for a colony of rhesus macaques established in the late-20th century.
    Synonym: Monkey Island (colloquial)
    • 1925, James Henry Rice, Glories of the Carolina Coast‎[4], page 62:
      Just below Hangman's Point, Morgan River enters the sound from behind Morgan Island, which lies midway between Ladies and St. Helena islands.
  2. An island of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia. [from 1948]

References

  1. ^ Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, for the Regular Session of 1878‎[1], 1878, page 129
  2. ^ The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fifty-third Congress‎[2], 1895, page 3951
  3. ^ Joseph Willard Brown (1896), The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion‎[3], page 270
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