Locations in South Africa with a Scottish name

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2008)

• • Aberdeen
  • Albany, South Africa (named after Albany, New York, in turn from the Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba)
  • Cathcart (George Cathcart)
  • Grahamstown (John Graham (British Army officer))

• • Balgowan
  • Dundee
  • Glencoe
  • Scottburgh

Kelso, Kwazulu, South Africa

• • Suburbs of Johannesburg [1]
    • Abbotsford
    • Argyll
    • Atholl
    • Balmoral
    • Birnam
    • Blairgowrie
    • Brushwood Haugh (Haugh being a Lowland Scots word for meadow)
    • Buccleuch
    • Craighall
    • Douglasdale
    • Dunkeld
    • Dunnotar
    • Dunvegan
    • Glen Atholl
    • Glen Esk
    • Heriotdale
    • Kelvin
    • Melrose
    • Melville
    • Moffat View
    • Morningside
    • Morningside Manor
    • Strathavon
  • Towns on the East Rand
    • Germiston
    • Wattville

• • Balfour (formerly "McHattiesburg")

• • Orkney

• • Alexander Bay (James Edward Alexander)
  • Campbell
  • Sutherland

• • Arniston (Arniston, Midlothian)
  • Clanwilliam
  • Elgin
  • Gordon's Bay
  • McGregor
  • Napier
  • Pringle Bay
  • Robertson (Rev William Robertson)
  • Suburbs of Cape Town [2]
    • 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)
    • Brackenfell
    • 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 Robben Island, named after John Murray, a Scottish whaler [3]