Locations in South Africa with a Scottish name
# Locations in South Africa with a Scottish name

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

## Eastern Cape

   * Aberdeen
   * Albany, South Africa (named after Albany, New York, in turn from the Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba)
   * Cathcart (George Cathcart)
   * Grahamstown (John Graham (British Army officer))

## KwaZulu-Natal (native)

   * Balgowan
   * Dundee
   * Glencoe
   * Scottburgh

Kelso, Kwazulu, South Africa

## Gauteng

   * Suburbs of Johannesburg
      * Abbotsford
      * Argyll
      * Atholl
      * 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
   * Towns on the East Rand
      * Germiston
      * 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)
      * Brackenfell
      * 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
