Morgan Island
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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.
— Just below Hangman's Point, Morgan River enters the sound from behind Morgan Island, which lies midway between Ladies and St. Helena islands.
- An island of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia.
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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.
* (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.
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