English Explanatory Dictionary

Morgan Island

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  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.
  2. An island of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia.

Word forms

Morgan Island

Etymology

By surface analysis, Morgan + island * (island in South Carolina): Originally named as Morgan's Island, named alongside the bordering Morgan River. Attested without the possessive marker since at least the mid-1890s. * (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.

Synonyms

Monkey Island
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