Locations in South Africa with a Scottish name explained

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 http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_johannesburg.htm
  - 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

Western Cape

- Arniston (Arniston, Midlothian)
- Clanwilliam
- Elgin
- Gordon's Bay
- McGregor
- Napier
- Pringle Bay
- Robertson (Rev William Robertson)
- Suburbs of Cape Town http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_cape_town.htm
  - 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 http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_cape_town.htm