- Scottish place names in other countries
Scottish place names in other countries is a list of placenames in
Scotland which have subsequently been applied to other parts of the world byScottish emigrants or , or contain distinctive Scottish surnames as an element.Antarctica
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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
** Cape Geddes
**Laurie Island (named byScottish National Antarctic Expedition )
**Nigg Rock [http://sites.scran.ac.uk/voyage_of_the_scotia/scotia/vs032-020.htm]
**Orcadas Base
** Omond House [http://sites.scran.ac.uk/voyage_of_the_scotia/scotia/vs032-042.htm]
**Scotia Bay
*South Shetlands
** Gibbs Island
**Livingston Island , McFarlane Strait (Livingston)
**South Shetland Trough Australia
For brevity, only major places are on this list - the remainder can be found at the Main|Scottish place names in Australia.
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New South Wales
**Ben Lomond
**Glen Innes*Northern Territory
**MacDonnell Ranges *Queensland
**Brisbane (Thomas Brisbane )*
Tasmania
**Ben Lomond
**Suburbs of Hobart-Glenorchy-
***Glenorchy &City of Glenorchy *
Western Australia
**Marvel Loch, Western Australia
**Perth
**Stirling Range Bermuda
*Callan Glen
*Hamilton
*Hamilton Parish (note Hamilton is "not" in Hamilton Parish)Bulgaria
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Atolovo ( _bg. Атолово, from the Bulgarian transliteration ofAtholl and the Slavic toponymic suffix "-ovo ")Canada
For brevity, only major places are on this list - the remainder can be found at the Main|Scottish place names in Canada.
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 GlasgowFor 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 ofAlexander Graham Bell .Chile
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Alejandro Selkirk Island (Juan Fernández Islands , named forAlexander Selkirk )
*Cochrane Island
*Gordon Island
* Lennox & Picton - Picton allegedly from "Pict ", Lennox from the area north of Glasgow.Dominica *
Scotts Head, Dominica
* Scott's Head VillageEngland
*
Scotch Corner
*Scotland Yard (London)Falkland Islands
* Douglas
Note: The
Falkland Islands derive their English language name name fromFalkland Sound . This was named forAnthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland , who in turn took his title fromFalkland Palace . See alsoWest Falkland &East Falkland , the two main islands.Stanley is a location in Scotland, but the Falkland town is named afterEdward 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.Hong Kong
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Aberdeen Harbour
*Arbuthnot Road
*Braemar Hill
*Jardine's Lookout (William Jardine)India
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Port Blair (Andaman Islands , named after Archibald Blair)Italy
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Sant'Andrea degli Scozzesi 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.Ireland
Because Scotland and Ireland have their own Gaelic languages, many of the same placename elements can be found in both countries.
* Scotch Quay (
Waterford )Jamaica
* Aberdeen
* Clydesdale
* Culloden (two places)* Dundee
* Elgin Town (two places)
* Farquhar's Beach
* Glasgow
* Inverness
* Kilmarnoch [sic - fromKilmarnock )
* Suburbs of Kingston (possibly not itself a Scottish name) [http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_kingston.htm]
** Balmagie
** Braeton
** Dunrobin
** Pitcairn Valley
**Portmore
** Sterling Castle (Stirling Castle )
*Montego Bay suburbs include Dunbar Pen andGlendevon .
* Perth Town
* Stewart Town
* TweedsideKerguelen Islands
* McMurdo Island/Ile McMurdo
* Ile MurrayMalawi
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Blantyre
*Cape Maclear Malaysia
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Darvel Bay Isle of Man
* Atholl Street (financial district of Douglas. Douglas while also a Scottish name, is not of Scottish origin in this case)
*St Ninian's Crossroads (Saint Ninian )The
Isle of Man likeIreland also has its own Gaelic language meaning that Scottish placename elements such as "glen" (Manx: "glione") frequently turn up there, e.g.Sulby Glen , but these are indigenous.New Caledonia
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New Caledonia New Zealand
For brevity, only major places are on this list - the remainder can be found at the Main|Scottish place names in New Zealand
*North Island
*Hamilton, New Zealand
*Napier, New Zealand
*South Island andStewart 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 inStewart Island
**Ulva Island
**Water of Leith (river)The South Island also contains the
Strath-Taieri and theBen Ohau Range of mountains, both combiningScots 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 andScottish Gaelic 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.Pitcairn Islands
*Pitcairn
*Henderson Island (Scottish surname)Seychelles *
Farquhar Group &Farquhar Atoll outh Africa
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Eastern Cape
**Aberdeen
**Albany, South Africa (named afterAlbany, 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 (native)
** Suburbs ofJohannesburg [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 (afterCharles 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, onRobbin Island , named after John Murray, a Scottish whaler [http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_cape_town.htm]outh Georgia
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Allardyce Range
*Geikie Glacier (Archibald Geikie )
*Leith Harbour (former whaling base)
*Lyell Glacier, South Georgia (Charles Lyell )
*McNish Island (Harry McNish )
*Mount Carse
*Mount Cunningham (John C. Cunningham)
*Ross Glacier
*St Andrews Bay
*Stromness &Stromness Bay
*Scotia Arc
*Scotia Sea The
Salvesen Range is named after Harold Salvesen, a director of Messrs. Chr. Salvesen and Co., an originally Norwegian company based inLeith , Scotland.ri Lanka
For brevity, only major places are on this list - the remainder can be found at the Main|Scottish place names in Sri Lanka
*Aberdeen
*Balmoral
*Caledonia
*Dalhousie
*Elgin
*Glasgow
*Highland
*Iona
*Macduff
*Maitland Crescent
*St.Andrew's
*SanquarTristan da Cunha
Trinidad and Tobago
* [Glencoe] (Suburb of Port of Spain)
* Caledonia Island & Craig Island (joined by a reef)Turks and Caicos Islands
*
Cockburn Harbour (South Caicos )United States
For brevity, only major places are on this list - the remainder can be found at the Main|Scottish place names in the United States.
*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 ofKurt Cobain Vanuatu
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New Hebrides Wales
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Butetown ("Tiger Bay"), in Cardiff (named after theMarquess of Bute )Zambia
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Livingstone, Zambia (David Livingstone )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. [http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_bulawayo.htm]
** 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 [http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_harare.htm]
** Ardbennie
** Braeside
** Glen Lorne
** Lochinvar
** StrathavenSome 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.Appendix - Scottish placenames in Outer Space
* The
Moon
**Dorsa Geikie , a wrinkle ridge system on the Moon, is named after SirArchibald Geikie . [ [http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/science/atlas/text/dorsatex.htm Nasa Atlas] Retrieved 7 July 2007.]
* 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 caseFingal's Cave onStaffa )References
External links
* [http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placenames1.htm Scottish placenames around the world]
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