Scottish place names in New Zealand

This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to parts of New Zealand by Scottish emigrants or .

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

Auckland Islands

* Ewing Island
* Port Ross

North Island

*Suburbs of Auckland (incl. North Shore City, Waitakere, Manukau)
**Ardmore
**Ardmore, New Zealand + Ardmore Airport
**Balmoral, New Zealand
**Glen Eden, New Zealand
**Glen Innes, New Zealand
**Glendene, New Zealand
**Glendowie, New Zealand
**Glenfield, New Zealand
**Henderson, New Zealand
**Kirkbride, New Zealand (Mangere)
**Murrays Bay
**Rothesay Bay
*Cape Campbell
*Cape Egmont
*Dalmeny Corner (Coromandel)
*Eskdale, New Zealand (Hawkes Bay)
* Firth of Thames (from the Scottish word "firth")
*Frasertown, New Zealand
*Gisborne suburbs
** Elgin, New Zealand
*Hamilton
**Callum Brae, a Hamilton suburb ("Callum McDougal" + "Brae" - a hill)
*Glenbrook, New Zealand (Waikato)
*Glendowie, New Zealand
*Huntly
*Kilbirnie
*Kinloch, Lake Taupo (Kinloch, New Zealand)
*Laingholm
*Mackenzie Bay (on Rangitoto
*Napier, New Zealand
*Waverley
*Suburbs of Wellington
**Kilbirnie, New Zealand
**Seatoun
*Waverley, New Zealand (Taranaki, after Walter Scott's hero "Waverley")

outh Island

*Athol, New Zealand
*Aviemore, New Zealand
*Avon River, Christchurch - named by the Deans Brothers.
*Balclutha - from the Gaelic for 'Clydetown' ("Baile Chluaidh")
*Lake Benmore ("Beinn Mor")
*Balfour
*Bannockburn, New Zealand
*Blackmount, New Zealand
*Ben McLeod
*Benmore Range (mountains)
*Ben Nevis, New Zealand
*Chatto Creek
*Suburbs of Christchurch
**Burnside, Canterbury (from "Burn", the Scots word for a small river [http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Heritage/LocalHistory/Fendalton/Bryndwr_Burnside.asp] )
**Riccarton, New Zealand
*Clutha River (from "Cluaidh", Scots Gaelic for "Clyde")
*Clyde
*Cheviot
*Craigieburn
*Denniston (Dennistoun)
*Dumbarton
*Dunback, New Zealand
*Dunedin, from "Dun Eideann", Scottish Gaelic for Edinburgh
**Dunedin's suburbs of Abbotsford, Belleknowes, Calton Hill, Corstorphine, Dalmore, Glenleith, Macandrew Bay, Maryhill, Musselburgh, Portobello, Roslyn, St. Kilda, and Waverley, St Kilda Beach, Macandrew Bay
*Drummond, New Zealand
*Duncan Bay
*Duntroon, New Zealand
*Eglinton River
*Eyre Mountains
*Lake Dunstan
*Dunstan Range (mountains)
*Ettrick
*Fairlie, New Zealand
*Forsyth Island, New Zealand
*Fortrose
*Galloway, New Zealand
*Garvie Mountains
*Glenavy
*Glenburn, New Zealand
*Glencoe, New Zealand
*Glenorchy
*Glentanner
*Glentunnel
*The Grampians (mountains)
*Hampden
*Inch Clutha (Meaning Clyde Island)
*Kelso
*Kinloch
*Kirkliston Range
*Kyeburn, New Zealand (=River/stream of the cows)
*Lake Aviemore
*Lake Benmore
*Lake Forsyth
*Lake Innes
*Lammerlaw Range (mountains)
*Lammermoor Range (mountains)
*Lauder, New Zealand
*Lochmara Bay (Queen Charlotte Sound - Loch na Mara = loch of the sea)
*Lochiel, New Zealand
*Lumsden
*Macandrew Bay, New Zealand
*Mackenzie Basin (James Mckenzie)
*Maclennan, New Zealand
*Maclennan Range (Catlins)
*Macrae's Flat
*Methven, New Zealand
*Mosgiel
*Mossburn, New Zealand
*Mount Bruce
*Nevis Bluff
*Nevis River
*Ranfurly
*Renwick, New Zealand
*Roxburgh
*Lake Roxburgh
*Saint Bathans, New Zealand (Abbey St Bathans)
*Soutra Hill, New Zealand
*Sutherland Falls (waterfall)
*Water of Leith (river)
*Wedderburn, New Zealand

Stewart Island (Rakiura)

*Stewart Island
*Oban, largest settlement in Stewart Island
*Paterson Inlet
*Ulva Island

*The Snares (not a Scottish name)
**Broughton Island

ee also

* Scottish place names in Australia
* Scottish place names in Canada
* Scottish place names in the United States