title: Locations in South Africa with a Scottish name
text: # 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
  