List of places named after individual animals

This is a list of notable towns and other geographic features named after individual animals.

Places named after horses

• Alexandria Bucephalous, former city founded by Alexander the Great in memory of his beloved horse Bucephalus
• Beeswing, Dumfries and Galloway, village in Scotland renamed to honour the racing mare Beeswing
• Coronach, Saskatchewan, community in Canada named after the 1926 Derby winner Coronach
• Marvel Loch, Western Australia, small townsite named after the horse that won the Caulfield Cup in 1905
• Norseman, Western Australia, named after the founder's horse, Hardy Norseman
• Tarcoola, South Australia, named after the 1893 Melbourne Cup winner

Places named after other animals

• Captains Flat, town in New South Wales, Australia, which may be named after a white bullock named "Captain"
• Knights Point, headland on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, named after a surveyor's dog called Knight
• Marco, ManawatÅ«-Whanganui, New Zealand, settlement named after a dog owned by the district surveyor

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