Locations in Australia with a Scottish name

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

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
• Albany Creek
• Alloway
• Alva, via Ayr
• Aramac (R. R. Mackenzie)
• Argyll
• Armstrong Beach
• Athol
• Ayr
• Balgowan
• Ballandean
• Ballogie
• Balmoral Ridge
• Balnagowan
• Bannockburn
• Barcaldine
• 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 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
• Kilkivan
• 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

References