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

Pringle Bay at the foot of Hangklip

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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

Gauteng

• • 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

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)
    • 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