Locations in Australia with a Scottish name explained

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

Australian Capital Territory

• Campbell (Robert Campbell)
• Duntroon
• Fraser
• Lawson
• Macgregor
• Macquarie (Lachlan Macquarie)
• Moncrieff
• Stirling

New South Wales

• Aberdeen
• Abermain
• Abernethy
• Appin
• Armidale (Armadale), suburbs include Ben Venue
• Balranald
• Ben Lomond
• Breadalbane
• Buchanan
• Campbelltown
• Carabost
• Cessnock
• Dalgety
• Dundee
• Duns Creek
• Fingal Bay (Fingal, Scottish form of Finn MacCool)
  • Fingal Head Galston
• Glencoe
• Glendale
• Glen Innes and Glen Innes Severn Council
• Glenmore (now called Elsmore)
• Hamilton
• Inverell and Inverell Shire
• Invergowrie
• Largs
• Lismore
• Lithgow
• Lochinvar
• Lorn
• Maclean
• Maitland
• Mossgiel
• Mount Imlay
• Lake Macquarie
  • City of Lake Macquarie
  • Balmoral, New South Wales
  • Macquarie Hills
• Paterson (William Paterson (explorer))
• Pitnacree
• Scone
• Scotland Island
• Stuart Town
• Sutherland
  • Sutherland Point
  • Sutherland Shire
• Tweed River
  • Tweed Heads
  • Tweed Shire
  • Tweed Valley
  • Tweed Volcano
• Suburbs of Sydney
  • Abbotford
  • Alfords Point
  • Airds
  • Annandale (Annandale)
  • Annangrove
  • Balmain and Balmain East
  • Balmoral
  • Blair Athol
  • Blairmount
  • Bonnyrigg and Bonnyrigg Heights
  • Busby
  • Campbelltown
  • Camperdown
  • Castlecrag (by architect Walter Burley Griffin, who named the suburb after a towering crag of rock overlooking Middle Harbour, known locally as Edinburgh Castle)
  • Cawdor
  • Clyde
  • Cowan
  • Davidson, suburb in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney and Electoral district of Davidson, a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
  • Doonside
  • Dundas and Dundas Valley
  • Elderslie
  • Erskineville
  • Glenmore Park
  • Glenorie
  • Macdonaldtown
  • Macquarie Fields
  • Macquarie Links
  • Macquarie Park
  • Melrose Park
  • Minto and Minto Heights
  • Mount Annan
  • Seaforth (Loch Seaforth, Isle of Lewis)
  • Smeaton Grange
  • Zetland

Northern Territory

• Cape Crawford
• Douglas / Daly Esplanade Conservation Area
• Douglas Hot Springs (Tjuwaliyn) Nature Park
• Glen Helen
• Kintore
• Kintore Caves Nature Park
• MacDonnell Ranges
• Lake Mackay
• Point Stuart Coastal Reserve
• Stuart Highway
• Tennant Creek

Queensland

• Abbotsford
• Abercorn
• Abergowrie
• Airdmillan
• Airlie Beach^[1]
  • Albany Creek Alloway
  • Alva, via Ayr Aramac (R. R. Mackenzie)
  • Argyll Armstrong Beach
  • Athol Ayr^[2]
• Balgowan
• Ballandean
• Ballogie
• Balmoral Ridge
• Balnagowan
• Bannockburn
• Barcaldine^[3]
• Barlyne
• Birnam (Scenic Rim Region)
• Birnam (Toowoomba Region)
• Blairmore
• Bogie
• Bon Accord, Queensland (Bon Accord, slogan of Aberdeen)
• Braemore, Queensland
• Breadalbane, Queensland
• Brisbane (Thomas Brisbane)
  • Auchenflower
  • Balmoral
  • Hamilton
  • Kelvin Grove (Kelvingrove Park)
  • Kenmore and Kenmore Hills
  • MacGregor (William MacGregor)
  • Mackenzie
  • Robertson
• Burnside
• Cairns (of Irish origin)
  • Bellenden Ker
  • Buchan Point
  • Glen Boughton
  • Gordonvale
  • Macalister Range
• Campbell Creek
• Campbells Pocket
• Charlestown
• Clinton
• Closeburn
• Colinton
• Conondale
• Cowan Cowan
• Craiglie
• Craigslea, now part of Chermside
• Cromarty
• Crossdale
• Dalbeg (Dail Beag)
• Shire of Dalrymple
• Dalrymple Heights
• Shire of Dalrymple (former)
• Deuchar
• Shire of Douglas
• Dundas
• Dysart
• Esk^[4] and Esk Island
• Fraser Island (Eliza Fraser)
• Glen Allyn
• Glenbar
• Glencoe
• Glendale
• Glenella
• Glen Isla
• Glenroy
• Glenwood
• Gordonstone
• Gowrie Junction
• Gowrie Mountain
• Grahams Creek
• Haigslea (Douglas Haig)
• Hamilton Island
• Hazeldean
• Irvinebank
• Jardine Islet
• Kennedy
• Kilbirnie
• Kilcoy^[5]
• Kilkivan^[6]
• Lamington
• Lammermoor
• Landsborough (William Landsborough)
• Logan City
• McEwens Beach
• Mackay (See John Mackay (Australian Pioneer))
  • Mackay Region
  • Mackay Harbour
  • North Mackay
  • Mackay City
  • West Mackay
  • South Mackay
  • East Mackay
  • North Mackay
• Maclagan
• Maleny
• Mitchell (Thomas Mitchell (explorer))
• Molendinar (Molendinar Burn in Glasgow)
• Morayfield
• Moreton Bay, City of Moreton Bay and Moreton Island (James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton)
• Mount Dalrymple
• Murray Upper
• New Beith
• North Maclean
• Ormiston
• Pentland
• Port Douglas
• Ross River, principal river of Townsville
• Scotchy Pocket
• Sinclair Island
• Strathpine (Strath + pine)
• Tully
• Westmar

South Australia

• Ardrossan
• Balgowan
• Bute
• Cockburn
• Edinburgh
• Hamilton
• Jamestown (James Fergusson)
• Keith
• Lochiel
• Maitland
• McLaren Vale
• Melrose
• Port Pirie
• Stenhouse Bay
• Stirling
• Strathalbyn
• Talisker Conservation Park (Talisker, Skye)
• Adelaide Suburbs
  • Aberfoyle Park
  • Athol Park,
  • Blair Athol
  • Burnside (named 1839 by Peter Anderson, a Scots migrant)
  • Campbelltown
  • Craigmore
  • Edinburgh (RAAF Base Edinburgh)
  • Glenalta
  • Glenelg, Glenelg North and Glenelg South
  • Glengowrie
  • Glen Osmond
  • Glenside
  • Largs Bay and Largs North
  • McLaren Flat and McLaren Vale
  • Skye
  • St Kilda

Lobethal was known as Tweedvale for a number of years, due to the World Wars.

Tasmania

• Aberdeen
• Ben Lomond
• Breadalbane
• Calder
• Campbell Town
• Currie
• Douglas River
• Dysart
• Elderslie
• Fingal
• Forth
• Glen Dhu (Glen Dhu = Gleann Dubh - black glen)
• Glengarry
• Gordon
• Gowrie Park
• Gretna
• Invermay
• Killiekrankie
• Lachlan
• Leith
• Macquarie and Macquarie Plains
• Macquarie Island
• Melrose
• Mount Murchison (Tasmania)
• Patersonia, an old name for Launceston.
• Perth
• Port Dalrymple (Dalrymple), the old name for George Town.
• Strathblane
• Upper Esk, North Esk River and South Esk River
• Suburbs of Hobart-Glenorchy-
  • Firthside ("Firth")
  • Glenorchy & City of Glenorchy
  • Granton
  • Howden
  • Lauderdale
  • Montrose

Victoria

• Aberfeldy
• Bairnsdale (corruption of Bernisdale in Skye)
• Balmoral
• Bannockburn
• Bonnie Doon
• Buchan
• Cardross
• Cassilis
• Clunes
• Clyde
• Dallas
• Don Valley (Strathdon)
• Donald
• Dunkeld
• Ensay
• Fingal
• Glenburn
• Glenmaggie
• Glenrowan
• Glenthompson
• Grampians National Park, home of the Grampian mountain range,
• Hamilton
• Invergordon
• Inverloch
• Jamieson
• Kilmore
• Lismore, Victoria
• Loch
• Lorne
• Niddrie
• Orbost
• Rutherglen
  • St Andrews Scotsburn
• Skye
• Strathbogie
• Strathmerton
• Strathmore
• Melbourne Suburbs
  • Abbotsford
  • Aberfeldie
  • Ardeer
  • Armadale
  • Arthurs Seat (Arthur's Seat)
  • Baxter
  • Blairgowrie
  • Cairnlea
  • Calder Park
  • Carnegie from Andrew Carnegie
  • Craigieburn
  • Dallas
  • Glen Eira
  • Glen Huntly
  • Glen Iris
  • Glen Waverley (tribute to Scott, cf Ivanhoe, Victoria)
  • Glenroy
  • Kilsyth
  • Knoxfield
  • Macleod
  • McCrae
  • McKinnon
  • Montrose
  • St Kilda and St Kilda East

Ivanhoe is named after the Walter Scott novel, Ivanhoe.

Western Australia

• Albany (Albany an old name for Scotland, cf Alba)
• Agnew
• Lake Argyle
• Balfour Downs
• Bruce Rock
• Carnegie
• Erskine
• Geikie Gorge
• Glen Iris
• Lake Mackay
• Marvel Loch
• Menzies
• Murchison and Murchison River, Western Australia
• Murray Street
• Perth
• Stirling Range
• Perth Suburbs
  • Applecross
  • Ardross
  • Armadale and City of Armadale
  • Attadale
  • Bassendean
  • Brigadoon
  • Burns Beach
  • City of Cockburn and Cockburn Central
  • Craigie
  • Dalkeith
  • Duncraig
  • Eglinton
  • Hamilton Hill
  • Henderson
  • Kinross
  • Marmion
  • Murdoch
  • Port Kennedy
  • Queens Park
  • Stirling and City of Stirling

See also

• Scottish Australians
• List of place names of Dutch origin in Australia
• List of locations in Australia with an English name
• Locations in Australia with a Welsh name

Notes and References

1. 28 August 2015.
2. 29 April 2012.
3. 29 April 2012.
4. 29 April 2012.
5. 29 April 2012.
6. 29 April 2012.