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)
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
- Suburbs of Johannesburg
Mpumalanga
- Balfour (formerly "McHattiesburg")
North West Province
Northern Cape
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
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