# 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 explorers.

## 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