[Morency Island is an island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) long, lying close west of Steele Island

Steele Island

Steele Island is a snow-covered island, 12 miles long from east to west and 10 miles wide, rising above the Larsen Ice Shelf off the east coast of Palmer Land, 12 miles southeast of Cape Sharbonneau. The steeply-sloping sides of the island are crevassed, but no rock is exposed. It was discovered...

 and 10 nautical miles (18 km) northwest of Cape Bryant

Cape Bryant

Cape Bryant is on the northern coast of Greenland, marking the northeastern extent of the Robeson Channel where it joins the Lincoln Sea in the Arctic Ocean, at ....

, off the east coast of Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

. Discovered by members of the East Base of the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) who explored this coast by land and from the air in 1940. Named for Anthony J.L. Morency, tractor driver for the East Base.