This page is a list of place names in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to other parts of the world by Scottish emigrants or explorers, or contain distinctive Scottish surnames as an element.
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 Orcadas Base Omond House Scotia Bay South Shetlands Barclay Bay Duff Point Gibbs Island Livingston Island, McFarlane Strait (Livingston) McFarlane Strait Morton Strait South Shetland Trough
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 Ben Lomond Glen Innes Dalgety Northern Territory MacDonnell Ranges Queensland Aramac (R. R. Mackenzie) Ayr Brisbane (Thomas Brisbane) Cairns Esk Kilcoy Logan City (Patrick Logan) Mackay (John Mackay) Mitchell (Thomas Mitchell) Tasmania Ben Lomond Suburbs of Hobart-Glenorchy- Glenorchy and City of Glenorchy Victoria Grampians, Victoria St. Kilda Dunkeld Western Australia Marvel Loch, Western Australia Perth Stirling Stirling Range
Barbados
Names in Bridgetown, Barbados (not a Scottish name) Arthurs Seat Callendar Carrington Inch Marlowe (Inchmarlo) Montrose James Town (King James VI of Scotland) Saint James, Barbados
Bermuda
Callan Glen Great Scaur Hamilton Hamilton Parish (Note that Hamilton is not in Hamilton Parish) Little Scaur McGall's Bay McGall's Hill Scaur Hill Scaur Hill Fort Spittal Pond
Bulgaria Atolovo (, 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 Banff - named after town in north east Scotland Calgary - named after Calgary, in Mull New Brunswick Perth-Andover 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: Canadian communities with Scottish Gaelic speakers Scottish Gaelic placenames in Canada. A notable example of this phenomenon is Beinn Bhreagh, former home of Alexander Graham Bell.
Ontario Eglinton Fergus Glencoe Hamilton Port Elgin Tobermory Wallaceburg (William Wallace) Prince Edward Island New Glasgow
Chile Alejandro Selkirk Island (Juan Fernández Islands, named for Alexander Selkirk) Villa Cameron Cochrane, Chile Gordon Island Lennox and Picton - Picton allegedly from "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
Douglas
Note: The Falkland Islands derive their English language name from Falkland Sound. This was named for Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland, who in turn took his title from Falkland Palace. See also West Falkland and East Falkland, the two main islands. Stanley is a location in Scotland, but the Falkland town is named after Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby.
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 Jardine's Lookout (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) McLeod Ganj was named after Sir Donald Friell McLeod, a Lieutenant Governor of Punjab Dalhousie, India, a town in Himachal Pradesh, named after Lord Dalhousie (1st Marquess of Dalhousie), Governor-General of India (1848–1856)
Italy Sant'Andrea degli Scozzesi
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 Ulster Plantations, Scottish settlers from the Lowlands who were mostly of Anglo-Saxon stock have left their mark with some place names in Ulster which are distinct to Ireland's predominantly Celtic placenames. 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) Balmagie Braeton Dunrobin Pitcairn Valley Portmore Sterling Castle (Stirling Castle) Knapdale Montego Bay suburbs include Dunbar Pen and 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) St Ninian's Crossroads (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 Caledonia
New Zealand
North Island Hamilton, New Zealand Napier, New Zealand 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 Strath-Taieri and the Ben Ohau Range of mountains, both combining Scots Gaelic and Māori 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 leading early settler, who was born in Scotland. Invercargill's main streets are named after Scottish rivers (Dee, Tay, Spey, Esk, Don, Doon, Clyde, etc.), and many places in Dunedin have names mirroring those in Edinburgh. Inchbonnie is a hybrid of Lowland Scots and Scottish Gaelic
Norway Hjeltefjorden, meaning "Shetland Fjord"
Panama
Due to the Darién scheme, the Caribbean coast of Panama has various names which refer to the Scottish presence. The colony was called "New Caledonia", the settlement "New Edinburgh", the fort "Fort St Andrew" and the bay near it "Caledonia Bay". These names are defunct, although references to the Scottish settlers remain in some of the Spanish language names of the region.
Pitcairn Islands Pitcairn Henderson Island (Scottish surname)
Seychelles Farquhar Group and Farquhar Atoll
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) Grahamstown (John Graham (British Army officer)) KwaZulu-Natal (native) Balgowan Dundee Glencoe Scottburgh Gauteng (native) Suburbs of Johannesburg 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 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 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
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
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas
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 Cockburn Harbour (South Caicos)
United States
Vanuatu New Hebrides
Wales Butetown ("Tiger Bay"), in Cardiff (named after the Marquess of Bute) Wattstown (Cwtch)
Zambia
Livingstone, Zambia (David Livingstone)
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. 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 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.Nasa Atlas Retrieved 7 July 2007. Europa Arran Chaos Callanish Tormsdale (Tormsdale, Caithness) Martian craters Ayr Balvicar Banff Darvel Doon Echt 253 Mathilde (asteroid) Clackmannan 243 Ida (asteroid) Fingal (features are named after caves, in this case Fingal's Cave on Staffa)
References
External links Scottish placenames around the world