List of Scottish place names in other countries
This page is a list of place names in
Antarctica
- Ailsa Craig (South Orkney Islands)
- Anderson Peninsula
- Dundee Island and Firth of Tay
- Inverleith Harbour
- McDonald Ice Rumples
- McMurdo Sound, McMurdo Ice Shelf and McMurdo Station
- McIntyre Island
- MacKenzie Bay
- Mount Campbell
- Mount Crawford (Antarctica)
- Mount Dalrymple
- Mount Douglas (Antarctica)
- Mount Hamilton (Antarctica)
- Mount Inverleith
- Mount Kirkpatrick/Kilpatrick and Kirkpatrick Basalt (named for a Glasgow businessman)
- Mount Strathcona
- Robertson Island
- Robertson Islands
- Scotia Arc and Scotia Sea
- South Orkneys
- Cape Geddes
- Laurie Island (named by Scottish National Antarctic Expedition)
- Nigg Rock [1]
- Orcadas Base
- Omond House [2]
- Scotia Bay
- South Shetlands
Argentina
- Armstrong, Santa Fe
- Drysdale, Buenos Aires - a settlement in Carlos Tejador Partido, Argentina
- Henderson, Buenos Aires
- Munro, Buenos Aires (Duncan Mackay Munro)
- Nueva Escocia - Spanish for New Scotland
Australia
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- Aramac (R. R. Mackenzie)
- Ayr
- Brisbane (Thomas Brisbane)
- Cairns
- Esk
- Kilcoy
- Logan City (Patrick Logan)
- John Mackay)
- Mitchell (Thomas Mitchell)
- Tasmania
- Ben Lomond
- Suburbs of Hobart-Glenorchy-
- Victoria
- Western Australia
Barbados
- Names in Bridgetown, Barbados (not a Scottish name)[3]
- Arthurs Seat
- Callendar
- Carrington
- Inch Marlowe (Inchmarlo)
- Montrose
- James Town (King James VI of Scotland)
- Saint James, Barbados
Bermuda
- Callan Glen
- Hamilton
- Hamilton Parish(Note that Hamilton is not in Hamilton Parish)
Bulgaria
- Atolovo (Bulgarian: Атолово, from the Bulgarian transliteration of Atholl and the Slavic toponymic suffix "-ovo")
Canada
- Also note that, unless otherwise stated, province names are not Scottish.
- Alberta
- New Brunswick
Caledonia Mountain
- Nova Scotia - Latin for New
Scotland
- Inverness County, Nova Scotia
- Victoria County, Nova Scotia
- Arisaig
- Glendale
- Iona
- New Glasgow
- Sunnybrae
- Aberdeen
- Halifax
- Dundee
For Nova Scotian names in Scottish Gaelic (not necessarily the same as the English versions) see:
A notable example of this phenomenon is
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
Chile
- Alejandro Selkirk Island (Juan Fernández Islands, named for Alexander Selkirk)
- Villa Cameron
- Cochrane, Chile
- Gordon Island
- Pict", Lennox from the area north of Glasgow
Dominica
- Scotts Head, Dominica
- Scott's Head Village
England
- Crawford, Lancashire, a hamlet near Rainford
- Scotch Corner
- Scotland Yard (London)
- Telford (named after Scottish engineer)
Falkland Islands
Note: The
Brenton Loch (inlet) and Loch Head Pond are also rare examples of the Scottish word "loch" being applied to bodies of water outside Europe.
Hong Kong
- Aberdeen Harbour
- Aberdeen Street
- Arbuthnot Road
- Argyle Street
- Arran Street
- Berwick Street
- Braemar Hill
- Bute Street
- Dumbarton Road
- Dunbar Road
- Dundas Street
- Edinburgh Place
- Elgin Street
- Fife Street
- Forfar Road
- Gullane Road
- Grampian Road
- Inverness Road
- William Jardine)
- Lomond Road
- Moray Road
- Pentland Street
- Perth Street
- Piper's Hill
- Renfrew Road
- Selkirk Road
- Stirling Road
- Sutherland Street
- Tweed Street
- Zetland Street
India
- Port Blair (Andaman Islands, named after Archibald Blair)
- Punjab
- Dalhousie, India, a town in Himachal Pradesh, named after Lord Dalhousie (1st Marquess of Dalhousie), Governor-General of India (1848–1856)
Italy
Indonesia
- Jawa Timur (East Java)
- Glenmore (fr:Glenmore (Indonésie), id:Glenmore, Banyuwangi) - From a Gaelic placename both in Mull and Lismore, it was named by Scottish Highland soldiers serving in the Dutch East India Company of the 18th Century who were garrisoned in the area near Mount Raung and who eventually married locally and settled down.
Ireland
Because Scotland and Ireland have their own Gaelic languages, many of the same placename elements can be found in both countries. However, during the
- Bridge End (Donegal)
- Burnfoot (Donegal)
- Burt (Donegal)
- Caledon, County Tyrone from Caledonia
- Crawfordsburn (Down)
- Drumcairn (Donegal)
- Inch (Donegal)
- Scotch Quay (Waterford)
- St. Johnston (Donegal)
- Manorcunningham (Donegal)
- Newtown Cunningham (Donegal)
- Newtownstewart (Lislas)
- Stewartstown (an Chraobh)
Jamaica
- Aberdeen
- Alva
- Berwick Castle
- Clydesdale
- Culloden (two places)
- Dundee
- Elderslie
- Elgin Town (two places)
- Farquhar's Beach
- Glasgow
- Inverness
- Kilmarnoch (sic - from Kilmarnock)
- Suburbs of Kingston (possibly not itself a Scottish name) [4]
- Balmagie
- Braeton
- Dunrobin
- Pitcairn Valley
- Portmore
- Sterling Castle (Stirling Castle)
- Knapdale
- Glendevon.
- Perth Town
- Roxborough
- Stewart Town
- Tweedside
Kerguelen Islands
- McMurdo Island/Ile McMurdo
- Ile Murray
Malawi
- Blantyre
- Cape Maclear
Malaysia
- Darvel Bay
- Cameron Highlands
- Fraser's Hill
- Port Dickson
- Kinta Kellas, Batu Gajah
Isle of Man
- Atholl Street (financial district of Douglas. Douglas while also a Scottish name, is not of Scottish origin in this case)
- Saint Ninian)
The Isle of Man like Ireland also has its own Gaelic language meaning that Scottish placename elements such as "glen" (Manx: "glione") frequently turn up there, e.g. Sulby Glen, but these are indigenous.
New Caledonia
New Zealand
- North Island
- South Island and Stewart Island/Rakiura
- Balclutha - from the Gaelic for 'Clydetown' (Baile Chluaidh)
- Dunedin, from Dun Eideann, Scottish Gaelic for Edinburgh
- Lammerlaw Range (mountains)
- The Grampians (mountains)
- Oban, largest settlement in Stewart Island/Rakiura
- Ulva Island
- Water of Leith(river)
The South Island also contains the
Norway
- Hjeltefjorden, meaning "Shetland Fjord"
Panama
Due to the
Pitcairn Islands
- Pitcairn
- Henderson Island (Scottish surname)
Seychelles
South Africa
- Eastern Cape
- Aberdeen
- Albany, South Africa (named after Albany, New York, in turn from an old name for Scotland, Alba)
- Cathcart (George Cathcart)
- John Graham (British Army officer))
- KwaZulu-Natal (native)
- Balgowan
- Dundee
- Glencoe
- Scottburgh
- Gauteng (native)
- Suburbs of Johannesburg [5]
- Abbotsford
- Argyll
- Balmoral
- Birnam
- Blairgowrie
- Brushwood Haugh (Haugh being a Lowland Scots word for meadow)
- Buccleuch
- Dunkeld
- Dunnotar
- Dunvegan
- Glen Atholl
- Glen Esk
- Heriotdale
- Kelvin
- Melrose
- Moffat View
- Strathavon
- Wattville
- Suburbs of Johannesburg [5]
- 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 [6]
- 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
- Kelvingrove
- Lochiel
- Schotsche Kloof - Afrikaans for "Scottish Ravine".
- St Kilda
- The Glen
- Finlay's Point
- Murray's Bay, on Robbin Island, named after John Murray, a Scottish whaler [7]
South Georgia
- Allardyce Range
- Geikie Glacier (Archibald Geikie)
- Leith Harbour (former whaling base)
- Lyell Glacier, South Georgia (Charles Lyell)
- McNish Island (Harry McNish)
- Mount Carse
- Mount Cunningham (John C. Cunningham)
- Ross Glacier
- St Andrews Bay
- Stromness and Stromness Bay
- Scotia Arc
- Scotia Sea
Sri Lanka
- Aberdeen Falls
- Balmoral
- Caledonia
- Dalhousie
- Elgin Falls
- Glasgow
- Highland
- Iona
- Macduff
- Maitland Crescent
- St. Andrew's
- Sanquhar
Sweden
- Inverness, a residential area in Danderyd Municipality, Stockholm
Tristan da Cunha
Trinidad and Tobago
- [Glencoe] (Suburb of Port of Spain)
- Caledonia Island and Craig Island (joined by a reef)
- Culloden Bay
- Mount Irvine
- Roxburgh
- Speyside
Turks and Caicos Islands
United States
Vanuatu
Wales
- Butetown ("Tiger Bay"), in Cardiff (named after the Marquess of Bute)
- Wattstown (Cwtch)
Zambia
Zimbabwe
- Bannockburn
- Craigmore, Zimbabwe
- Glendale, Zimbabwe
- West Nicholson
- Bulawayo is a native name, but 38 of the 156 suburbs have names of some kind of Scottish origin.[8]
- Barbourfields
- Burnside
- Douglasdale
- Glencoe
- Glengarry
- Kelvin, Kelvin East, Kelvin North and Kelvin West (River Kelvin)
- Lochview - in reference to Lakeside Dam.
- Montrose Old Church
- Morningside
- Paddonhurst
- Southdale (Shetland Islands).
- Harare also a native name - suburbs include [9]
- Ardbennie
- Braeside
- Glen Lorne
- Lochinvar
- Strathaven
Some post-colonial renaming has taken place, e.g. Lake Chivero was formerly known as Lake McIlwaine. It is uncertain whether the "Glen" of Glen Norah is Scottish inspired.
Outer space
- The Moon
- Dorsa Geikie, a wrinkle ridge system on the Moon, is named after Sir Archibald Geikie.[1]
- Europa
- Arran Chaos
- Callanish
- Tormsdale (Tormsdale, Caithness)
- Martian craters
- Ayr
- Balvicar
- Banff
- Darvel
- Doon
- Echt
- 253 Mathilde (asteroid)
- 243 Ida (asteroid)
- Fingal (features are named after caves, in this case Fingal's Cave on Staffa)
References
- ^ Nasa Atlas Archived 2007-07-14 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 7 July 2007.