Scottish place names in South Africa
This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to parts of South Africa by Scottish emigrants or explorers.
Arniston, South Africa's typical fisherman houses
Boers watch the fighting at
Dundee in 1899
- Suburbs of Johannesburg
- 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
North West Province
- 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)
- 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
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