Scottish place names in New Zealand

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

Main article: Scottish place names in other countries

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

[edit] Auckland Islands

• Ewing Island
• Port Ross

[edit] North Island

Rothesay Bay Beach with Rangitoto Island in the distance in the Hauraki Gulf.

• 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
  • Murrays Bay
  • Rothesay Bay
• Hamilton
  • Callum Brae, a Hamilton suburb ("Calum" + "Brae" - a hill)
• Huntly
• Kilbirnie
• Laingholm
• Napier, New Zealand
• Waverley
• Suburbs of Wellington
  • Kilbirnie, New Zealand
  • Seatoun

[edit] South Island

Cnr of Esk and Dee Streets, looking up Esk st, one of the main shopping streets of Invercargill.

Looking at Lake Wakatipu from Glenorchy

View of the Clutha River towards Roxburgh Bridge.

Sutherland Falls

• Athol, New Zealand
• Lake Aviemore (Aviemore)
• 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
• Benmore Range (mountains)
• Suburbs of Christchurch
  • Burnside, Canterbury (from "Burn", the Scots word for a small river[1])
• Clutha River (from "Cluaidh", Scots Gaelic for "Clyde")
• Clyde
• Cheviot
• Craigieburn
• Denniston (Dennistoun)
• Dumbarton
• 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
• Drummond, New Zealand
• Duntroon, New Zealand
• Eglinton River
• Lake Dunstan
• Dunstan Range (mountains)
• Ettrick
• Fortrose
• Glenavy
• Glencoe, New Zealand
• Glenorchy
• The Grampians (mountains)
• Hampden
• Inch Clutha (Meaning Clyde Island)
• Kelso
• Kinloch
• Lake Innes
• Lammerlaw Range (mountains)
• Lammermoor Range (mountains)
• Lochiel, New Zealand
• Lumsden
• Macandrew Bay, New Zealand
• Maclennan, New Zealand
• Mosgiel
• Nevis Bluff
• Nevis River
• Ranfurly
• Roxburgh
• Lake Roxburgh
• Saint Bathans, New Zealand (Abbey St Bathans)
• Sutherland Falls (waterfall)
• Water of Leith (river)

[edit] Stewart Island (Rakiura)

Satellite image of Stewart Island/Rakiura

Temperate rainforest on Ulva Island

Overlooking Oban and Halfmoon Bay on Stewart Island

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

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

[edit] See also

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

180° view of Dunedin, New Zealand shot from the hills on the west. Mount Cargill is at the extreme left of picture, and the Otago Peninsula is beyond the harbour to the centre.