Scottish place names in other countries

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Scottish place names in other countries is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to other parts of the world by Scottish emigrants or explorers, or contain distinctive Scottish surnames as an element.

Contents 1 Antarctica 2 Australia 3 Bermuda 4 Canada 5 Chile 6 Dominica 7 England 8 Falkland Islands 9 Hong Kong 10 India 11 Indonesia 12 Jamaica 13 Kerguelen Islands 14 Malawi 15 Malaysia 16 New Caledonia 17 New Zealand 18 Panama 19 Pitcairn Islands 20 Seychelles 21 South Africa 22 South Georgia 23 Tristan da Cunha 24 Trinidad and Tobago 25 Turks and Caicos Islands 26 United States 27 Vanuatu 28 Wales 29 Zambia 30 Zimbabwe 31 Appendix - Scottish placenames in Outer Space 32 References 33 External links

[edit] Antarctica

• Ailsa Craig (South Orkney Islands)
• Anderson Peninsula
• Dundee Island and Firth of Tay
• Inverleith Harbor
• McDonald Ice Rumples
• McMurdo Sound, McMurdo Ice Shelf & McMurdo Station
• McIntyre Island
• MacKenzie Bay
• Mount Campbell
• Mount Crawford (Antarctica)
• Mount Dalrymple
• Mount Douglas (Antarctica)
• Mount Hamilton (Antarctica)
• Mount Inverleith
• Mount Kirkpatrick/Kilpatrick & Mount Kirkpatrick Formation (named for a Glasgow businessman)
• Mount Strathcona
• Robertson Island
• Robertson Islands
• Scotia Arc & Scotia Sea
• South Orkneys
  • Laurie Island (named by Scottish National Antarctic Expedition)
  • Orcadas Base
• South Shetlands
  • Gibbs Island
  • Livingston Island, McFarlane Strait (Livingston)
  • South Shetland Trough

[edit] Australia

For brevity, only major places are on this list - the remainder can be found at the

Main article: Scottish place names in Australia

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• New South Wales
  • Ben Lomond
  • Glen Innes

• Northern Territory
  • MacDonnell Ranges

• Tasmania
  • Ben Lomond

• • Suburbs of Hobart-Glenorchy-
    • Glenorchy & City of Glenorchy

• Victoria
  • St. Kilda

• Western Australia
  • Marvel Loch, Western Australia
  • Perth
  • Stirling Range

[edit] Bermuda

• Hamilton
• Hamilton Parish (note Hamilton is not in Hamilton Parish)

[edit] Canada

For brevity, only major places are on this list - the remainder can be found at the

Main article: Scottish place names in Canada

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Note that, unless otherwise stated, province names are not Scottish.

• Alberta
  • Banff - named after town in north east Scotland
  • Calgary - named after Calgary, in Mull

• New Brunswick
  • Perth-Andover

• Nova Scotia - Latin for New Scotland
  • Arisaig
  • Inverness County
    • Glendale
    • Inverness
  • New Glasgow
  • Victoria County
    • Iona
• Ontario

• • Port Elgin
• Prince Edward Island
  • New Glasgow

For Nova Scotian names in Scottish Gaelic (not necessarily the same as the English versions) please see Canadian communities with Scottish Gaelic speakers and Scottish Gaelic placenames in Canada. A notable example of this phenomenon is Beinn Bhreagh, former home of Alexander Graham Bell.

[edit] Chile

• Alejandro Selkirk Island (Juan Fernández Islands, named for Alexander Selkirk)
• Gordon Island
• Lennox & Picton - Picton allegedly from "Pict", Lennox from the area north of Glasgow.

[edit] Dominica

• Scotts Head, Dominica

[edit] England

• Scotch Corner
• Scotland Yard (London)

[edit] Falkland Islands

• Douglas

Note: The Falkland Islands derive their English language name name from Falkland Sound. This was named for Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, who in turn took his title from Falkland Palace. See also West Falkland & East Falkland, the two main islands. Stanley is a location in Scotland, but the Falkland town is named after Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby.

Brenton Loch (inlet) and Loch Head Pond are also rare examples of the Scottish word "loch" being applied to bodies of water outside Europe.

[edit] Hong Kong

• Aberdeen Harbour
• Arbuthnot Road
• Braemar Hill
• Jardine's Lookout (William Jardine)

[edit] India

• Port Blair (Andaman Islands, named after Archibald Blair)

[edit] Indonesia

• Jawa Timur (East Java)
  • Glenmore - From a Gaelic placename both in Mull and Lismore, it was named by Scottish Highland soldiers serving in the Dutch East India Company of the 18th Century who were garrisoned in the area near Mount Raung and who eventually married locally and settled down.

[edit] Jamaica

• Aberdeen
• Clydesdale
• Culloden (two places)

• Dundee
• Elgin Town (two places)
• Farquhar's Beach
• Glasgow
• Inverness
• Kilmarnoch [sic - from Kilmarnock)
• Suburbs of Kingston (possibly not itself a Scottish name) [1]
  • Balmagie
  • Braeton
  • Dunrobin
  • Pitcairn Valley
  • Portmore
  • Sterling Castle (Stirling Castle)
• Montego Bay suburbs include Dunbar Pen and Glendevon.
• Perth Town
• Stewart Town
• Tweedside

[edit] Kerguelen Islands

• McMurdo Island/Ile McMurdo
• Ile Murray

[edit] Malawi

• Blantyre
• Cape Maclear

[edit] Malaysia

• Darvel Bay

[edit] New Caledonia

• New Caledonia

[edit] New Zealand

For brevity, only major places are on this list - the remainder can be found at the

Main article: Scottish place names in New Zealand

• North Island
• Hamilton, New Zealand
• Napier, New Zealand
• South Island and Stewart Island
  • Balclutha - from the Gaelic for 'Clydetown' (Baile Chluaidh)
  • Dunedin, from Dun Eideann, Scottish Gaelic for Edinburgh
  • Lammerlaw Range (mountains)
  • The Grampians (mountains)
  • Oban, largest settlement in Stewart Island
  • Ulva Island
  • Water of Leith (river)

The South Island also contains the Strath-Taieri and the Ben Ohau Range of mountains, both combining Scots Gaelic and Maori origins. Invercargill has the appearance of a Scottish name, since it combines the Scottish prefix "Inver" (Inbhir), meaning a river's mouth, with "Cargill", the name of a Scottish official. (Invercargill's main streets are named after Scottish rivers: Dee, Tay, Spey, Esk, Don, Doon, Clyde, etc.). Inchbonnie is a hybrid of Lowland Scots and Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Panama

Due to the Darién scheme, the Caribbean coast of Panama has various names which refer to the Scottish presence. The colony was called "New Caledonia", the settlement "New Edinburgh", the fort "Fort St Andrew" and the bay near it "Caledonia Bay". These names are defunct, although references remain in some of the Spanish language names of the region to the Scottish settlers.

[edit] Pitcairn Islands

• Pitcairn
• Henderson Island (Scottish surname)

[edit] Seychelles

• Farquhar Group & Farquhar Atoll

[edit] South Africa

• Eastern Cape
  • Aberdeen
  • Cathcart (George Cathcart)
  • Grahamstown
• KwaZulu-Natal (native)
  • Balgowan
  • Dundee
  • Glencoe
  • Scottburgh
• Gauteng (native)
  • Suburbs of Johannesburg [2]
    • Abbotsford
    • Argyll
    • Balmoral
    • Birnam
    • Blairgowrie
    • Brushwood Haugh (Haugh being a Lowland Scots word for meadow)
    • Buccleuch
    • Dunkeld
    • Dunnotar
    • Dunvegan
    • Glen Atholl
    • Glen Esk
    • Heriotdale
    • Kelvin
    • Melrose
    • Moffat View
    • Strathavon
    • Wattville
• Mpumalanga
  • Balfour (formerly "McHattiesburg")
• North West Province
  • Orkney
• Northern Cape
  • Alexander Bay (James Edward Alexander)
  • Campbell
  • Sutherland
• Western Cape
  • Arniston (Arniston, Midlothian)
  • Clanwilliam
  • Elgin
  • Gordon's Bay
  • McGregor
  • Napier
  • Pringle Bay
  • Robertson (Rev William Robertson)
  • Suburbs of Cape Town [3]
    • Airlie
    • Balvenie
    • Bellville (after Charles Davidson Bell, Surveyor-General of the Cape from 1848 to 1872)
    • Bonnie Brook (Burn is the normal form in Scotland)
    • Clunie
    • Crawford
    • Crofters' Valley
    • Dunoon
    • Dunrobin
    • Glencairn
    • Lochiel
    • Schotsche Kloof - Afrikaans for "Scottish Ravine".
    • St Kilda
    • The Glen
  • Cape Maclear
  • Finlay's Point
  • Murray's Bay, on Robbin Island, named after John Murray, a Scottish whaler [4]

[edit] South Georgia

• Allardyce Range
• Leith Harbour (former whaling base)
• Mount Carse
• Ross Glacier
• St Andrews Bay
• Stromness & Stromness Bay
• Scotia Sea

[edit] Tristan da Cunha

• Edinburgh

[edit] Trinidad and Tobago

• [Glencoe] (Suburb of Port of Spain)
• Caledonia Island & Craig Island (joined by a reef)

[edit] Turks and Caicos Islands

• Cockburn Harbour (South Caicos)

[edit] United States

For brevity, only major places are on this list - the remainder can be found at the

Main article: Scottish place names in the United States

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• California
  • Inverness
• Florida
  • Dunedin, from Dun Eideann, Scottish Gaelic for Edinburgh
• Texas
  • Dallas north east Scotland
  • Houston - Houston suburbs include Montrose
• Washington State
  • Aberdeen - Home of Kurt Cobain

[edit] Vanuatu

• New Hebrides

[edit] Wales

• Butetown ("Tiger Bay"), in Cardiff (Bute)

[edit] Zambia

• Livingstone, Zambia (David Livingstone)

[edit] Zimbabwe

• Bannockburn
• Craigmore
• Glendale, Zimbabwe
• West Nicholson
• Bulawayo is a native name, but 38 of the 156 suburbs have names of some kind of Scottish origin.[5]
  • Barbourfields
  • Burnside
  • Douglasdale
  • Glencoe
  • Glengarry
  • Kelvin, Kelvin East, Kelvin North and Kelvin West (River Kelvin)
  • Lochview - in reference to Lakeside Dam.
  • Montrose Old Church
  • Morningside
  • Paddonhurst
  • Southdale (Shetland Islands).
• Harare also a native name - suburbs include [6]
  • Ardbennie
  • Braeside
  • Glen Lorne
  • Lochinvar
  • Strathaven

Some post-colonial renaming has taken place, e.g. Lake Chivero was formerly known as Lake McIlwaine. It is uncertain whether the "Glen" of Glen Norah is Scottish inspired.

[edit] Appendix - Scottish placenames in Outer Space

• The Moon
  • Dorsa Geikie, a wrinkle ridge system on the Moon, is named after Sir Archibald Geikie.^[1]
• Europa
  • C|Arran Chaos
  • Callanish
  • Tormsdale (Tormsdale, Caithness)
• Martian craters
  • Ayr
  • Balvicar
  • Banff
  • Darvel
  • Doon
  • Echt
  • Leuk
• 253 Mathilde (asteroid)
  • Clackmannan
• 243 Ida (asteroid)
  • Fingal (features are named after caves, in this case Fingal's Cave on Staffa)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Scottish placenames around the world