Scottish place names in South Africa
- Scottish place names in South Africa
This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to parts of South Africa by Scottish emigrants or .
Eastern Cape
**Aberdeen
**Albany, South Africa (named after Albany, New York, in turn from an old name for Scotland, Alba)
**Cathcart (George Cathcart)
**Grahamstown (John Graham (British Army officer))
KwaZulu-Natal (native)
**Balgowan
**Dundee
**Glencoe
**Scottburgh
Gauteng
** Suburbs of Johannesburg [http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_johannesburg.htm]
*** 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 [http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_cape_town.htm]
*** 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
** Finlay's Point
** Murray's Bay, on Robbin Island, named after John Murray, a Scottish whaler [http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_cape_town.htm]
ee also
* Scottish place names in Australia
* Scottish place names in Canada
* Scottish place names in New Zealand
* Scottish place names in Sri Lanka
* Scottish place names in the United States
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