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Locations in South Africa with a Scottish name

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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.

Contents

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

    • Kelso, Kwazulu, South Africa

    Gauteng

  • Suburbs of Johannesburg [1]
  • Abbotsford
  • Argyll
  • 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
  • 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 [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)
  • 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]

    • References

    Locations in South Africa with a Scottish name Wikipedia
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