Locations in New Zealand with a Scottish name
This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to parts of New Zealand by Scottish emigrants or explorers.
The South Island also contains the Strath-Taieri and the Ben Ohau Range of mountains, both combining Scots Gaelic and Māori origins, as does Glentaki, in the lower valley of the Waitaki River. Invercargill has the appearance of a Scottish name, since it combines the Scottish prefix "Inver" (Inbhir), meaning a river's mouth, with "Cargill", the name of Scottish early settler William Cargill. (Invercargill's main streets are named after Scottish rivers, e.g.;, Dee, Tay, Spey, Esk, Don, Doon, Clyde, ). Inchbonnie is a hybrid of Lowland Scots and Scottish Gaelic
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North Island
- Suburbs of Auckland (incl. North Shore City, Waitakere, Manukau)
- Cape Campbell
- Cape Egmont
- Dalmeny Corner (Coromandel)
- Eskdale, New Zealand (Hawkes Bay)
- Firth of Thames (from the Scottish word "firth")
- Frasertown, New Zealand
- Gisborne suburbs
- Hamilton
- Callum Brae, a Hamilton suburb ("Callum McDougal" + "Brae" - a hill)
- Glenbrook, New Zealand (Waikato)
- Glendowie, New Zealand
- Huntly
- Kilbirnie
- Kinloch, New Zealand
- Laingholm
- Mackenzie Bay (on Rangitoto Island
- Napier, New Zealand
- Waverley, New Zealand (Taranaki, after Walter Scott's hero "Waverley")
- Suburbs of Wellington
South Island
- Athol, New Zealand
- Aviemore, New Zealand
- Avon River, Christchurch - named by the Deans Brothers.[1]
- Balclutha - from the Gaelic for 'Clydetown' (Baile Chluaidh)
- Lake Benmore (Beinn Mor)
- Balfour
- Bannockburn, New Zealand
- Blackmount, New Zealand
- Ben McLeod
- Benmore Range (mountains)
- Ben Nevis, New Zealand
- Chatto Creek
- Suburbs of Christchurch
- Burnside, Canterbury (from "Burn", the Scots word for a small river [1])
- Riccarton, New Zealand[1]
- Clutha River (from "Cluaidh", Scots Gaelic for "Clyde")
- Clyde
- Cheviot
- Craigieburn
- Denniston (Dennistoun)
- Dumbarton
- Dunback, New Zealand
- Dunedin, from Dun Eideann, Scottish Gaelic for Edinburgh, and its suburbs listed below. Many of the city's central streets (such as Princes Street and Moray Place) are named after equivalent streets in Edinburgh.
- Drummond
- Duncan Bay
- Duntroon
- Eglinton River
- Eyre Mountains
- Lake Dunstan
- Dunstan Range (mountains)
- Ettrick
- Fairlie, New Zealand
- Forsyth Island, New Zealand
- Fortrose
- Galloway, New Zealand
- Garvie Mountains
- Glenavy
- Glenburn, New Zealand
- Glencoe, New Zealand
- Glenorchy
- Glentanner
- Glentunnel
- The Grampians (mountains)
- Inch Clutha (Meaning Clyde Island)
- Kelso
- Kinloch
- Kirkliston Range
- Kyeburn, New Zealand (=River/stream of the cows)
- Lake Aviemore
- Lake Benmore
- Lake Forsyth
- Lake Innes
- Lammerlaw Range (mountains)
- Lammermoor Range (mountains)
- Lauder, New Zealand
- Lochmara Bay (Queen Charlotte Sound - Loch na Mara = loch of the sea) [name may have been given by C.W.A.T Kenny, 1835-1905, holder of the Lochmara Run ca 1859, who appears to have had Scottish origins]
- Lochiel, New Zealand
- Luggate
- Lumsden
- Mackenzie Basin (James Mckenzie)
- Maclennan, New Zealand
- Maclennan Range (Catlins)
- Macraes Flat
- Methven, New Zealand
- Mosgiel
- Mossburn, New Zealand
- Mount Bruce
- Nevis Bluff
- Nevis River
- Ranfurly
- Renwick, New Zealand
- Roxburgh
- Lake Roxburgh
- Saint Bathans, New Zealand (Abbey St Bathans)
- Soutra Hill, New Zealand
- Sutherland Falls (waterfall)
- Water of Leith (river)
- Wedderburn, New Zealand
Stewart Island (Rakiura)
- Stewart Island
- Oban, largest settlement in Stewart Island
- Paterson Inlet
- Ulva Island
- The Snares (not a Scottish name)
Auckland Islands
See also
- Scottish New Zealander
- Scottish place names in Australia
- Scottish place names in Canada
- Scottish place names in Sri Lanka
- Scottish place names in the United States
