Morgan Island

English +, South Carolina Etymology en Morgan island island in South Carolina Originally named as Morgan's Island,en Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina, for the Regular Session of 1878 1878 129 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Journal/2odDAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Morgan%20Island named alongside the bordering Morgan River. Attested without the possessive marker since at least the mid-1890s.en The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Fifty-third Congress 1895 3951 https://www.google.com/books/edition/House_documents/kGyu2n71b2UC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Morgan+Island&pg=PA3951&printsec=frontcoveren The Signal Corps, U.S.A. in the War of the Rebellion https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Signal_Corps_U_S_A_in_the_War_of_the/MVUfAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Morgan%20Island Joseph Willard Brown 270 1896 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 en island archipelago/Sea Islands county/Beaufort County state/South Carolina c/United States, known for a colony of rhesus macaques established in the late-20th century. en Monkey Island colloquial en Glories of the Carolina Coast James Henry Rice 1925 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Glories_of_the_Carolina_Coast/6Ox4AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Morgan+Island&pg=PA62&printsec=frontcover Just below Hangman's Point, Morgan River enters the sound from behind Morgan Island, which lies midway between Ladies and St. Helena islands. 62 en island territory/Heard Island and McDonald Islands c/Australia. from 1948 References