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.



Eastern Cape

 * 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))

KwaZulu-Natal (native)
Kelso, Kwazulu, South Africa
 * Balgowan
 * Dundee
 * Glencoe
 * Scottburgh

Gauteng

 * Suburbs of Johannesburg
 * 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

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
 * 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