Scottish place names in other countries

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Scottish place names in other countries is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to other parts of the world by Scottish emigrants or explorers.

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1 Australia
2 Bermuda
3 Canada
4 Indonesia
5 New Caledonia
6 New Zealand
7 Pitcairn Islands
8 South Africa
9 South Georgia
10 Tristan da Cunha
11 Trinidad and Tobago
12 United States
13 Vanuatu
14 External link

[edit] Australia

New South Wales
Queensland
- Ayr
- Esk
- Kilbirnie
- Logan
- Tully
South Australia
- Keith
- Melrose
- Stirling
Tasmania
Western Australia
- Perth
Victoria
- Grampians National Park, home of the Grampian mountain range,
- St Kilda, suburb of Melbourne

[edit] Canada

Note that, unless otherwise stated, province names are not Scottish.

Alberta
- Airdrie
- Strathcona County
  - Ardrossan
- Banff - named after town in north east Scotland
- Calgary - named after place in Mull
- Carstairs
- Clyde
- Coutts
- Ferintosh
- Fort Macleod
- Fort McMurray

British Columbia
- Abbotsford (location of Sir Walter Scott's house)
Manitoba
- Selkirk
- St Andrews
New Brunswick
- Campbelltown
- Dalhousie
- Perth-Andover
- Port Elgin (Elgin)
- Rothesay
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Buchans
Nova Scotia - Latin for New Scotland
- Arisaig
- Inverness County
  - Glendale
  - Inverness
- New Glasgow
- Victoria County
  - Iona
Ontario
- Glasgow
- Hamilton
Saskatchewan
- Biggar
- Jedburgh

The Northwest Territories also contain two places with Scottish surnames: Fort Simpson and Fort McPherson. For Nova Scotian names in Scottish Gaelic (not necessarily the same as the English versions) please see Canadian communities with Scottish Gaelic speakers

[edit] Indonesia

Jawa Timur (East Java)
- Glenmore - 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.

[edit] New Caledonia

New Caledonia

[edit] New Zealand

North Island
- Hamilton
- Huntly
- Waverley
South Island and Stewart Island
- Lake Aviemore
- Balclutha - from the Gaelic for 'Clydetown'
- Lake Benmore
- Balfour
- Bannockburn, New Zealand
- Blackmount, New Zealand
- Benmore Range (mountains)
- Clutha River (Scots Gaelic for "Clyde")
- Clyde
- Cheviot
- Craigieburn
- Dumbarton
- Dunedin, from Dun Eideann, Scottish Gaelic for Edinburgh
  - Dunedin's suburbs of Abbotsford, Belleknowes, Calton Hill, Corstorphine, Dalmore, Glenleith, Macandrew Bay, Maryhill, Musselburgh, Portobello, Roslyn, St. Kilda, and Waverley
- Lake Dunstan
- Dunstan Range (mountains)
- Lammerlaw Range (mountains)
- Lammermoor Range (mountains)
- Ettrick
- Fortrose
- Glenavy
- Glenorchy
- The Grampians (mountains)
- Hampden
- Inch Clutha (Meaning Clyde Island)
- Kelso
- Kinloch
- Lochiel, New Zealand
- Lumsden
- Mosgiel
- Nevis Bluff
- Nevis River
- Oban, largest settlement in Stewart Island
- Ranfurly
- Roxburgh
- Lake Roxburgh
- Sutherland Falls (waterfall)
- Ulva Island
- Water of Leith (river)

The South Island also contains the Strath-Taieri and the Ben Ohau Range of mountains, both combining Scots Gaelic and Maori origins. Invercargill has the appearance of a Scottish name, since it combines the Scottish prefix "Inver" (Inbhir), meaning a river's mouth, with "Cargill", the name of a Scottish official. (Invercargill's main streets are named after Scottish rivers: Dee, Tay, Spey, Esk, Don, Doon, Clyde, etc.)