Name for British South America after independence

This took the turn tinto "If the english conquered it from Spain", to me this seemed to be more of if England colonized instead of Spain, so instead Spain has large North American chunks.

I assume that basic city names like Jamestown, Charleston, etc, would be common through out the colony, as in most english colonies. If they took this rater than North America then maybe we would have a New York. Reigons would be named say, New Wales, Oueensland/Kingsland, maybe an alternate Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Plateland.

Maybe something could be named with the Falkland Islands.
 
If Britain takes over the region from the Spaniards in 1806-07, I'd say keep many of the names - e.g. Argentina for the country as a whole, Buenos Aires, the River Plate. It's no different than Montreal, or San Antonio, or San Francisco, or Los Angeles. Of course, some of the province names would change so that Buenos Aires Prov. could be Plate Province (officially, the River Plate Province) - cf. Cape [of Good Hope] Province in South Africa; Santa Fe Prov. could be something like Victorialand; and Santa Cruz Prov. in the far south could be Regina. (In that context, it would be more appropriate to name something major like that after Queen Victoria along the lines of Victoria and Queensland states in Australia or the Canadian cities of Regina and Victoria, as opposed to a "New Hampshire" or a "New Brunswick" or a "New South Wales" which date from the 1600s-1700s. Plus, one needs to understand that Latin countries like Argentina or Mexico have many states or provinces named after their capital, much more than in Anglo countries like the US, Canada, or Australia.)

If, on the other hand, Britain colonizes the region instead of Spain (and much of that region - esp. the Pampas, Uruguay, and Patagonia - was quite empty all the way until the 1800s), the door is wide open for wholesale renaming. Though Chile, Peru, etc. keep their names!

Whatever the scenario, "British South America" is quite appropriate until it gets dominion status, at which point it could be called "Argentina", "the Argentine", or more formally "the Argentine Union".
 
Ha! That would make sense for them to do.

The people there were called Patagons, or Tehuelche. Maybe that could be adapted - a Welshman could translate it onto a map, it gets propogated, and the Welsh name becomes the name of the colony.

It turns the Tehuelche had a few subdivisions:

Künün-a-Güna (Gennakenk, Gennaken)
Küwach-a-Güna
Mecharnúekenk
Aónikenk (Zuidelijke Tehuelche)

Perhaps one of them can get "misheard" and reused as a name. Kunnegun, Kunnigen, Kunnigan, Kennaken, Gennakin, Kuwachegun, Mecharneken, Majarniken, Auniken, something like that?

Tehuelche is rather close to "the welsher" or "tea welsher" so we could expect something like New Wales :D
 

katchen

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Ha! That would make sense for them to do.

The people there were called Patagons, or Tehuelche. Maybe that could be adapted - a Welshman could translate it onto a map, it gets propogated, and the Welsh name becomes the name of the colony.

It turns the Tehuelche had a few subdivisions:

Künün-a-Güna (Gennakenk, Gennaken)
Küwach-a-Güna
Mecharnúekenk
Aónikenk (Zuidelijke Tehuelche)

Perhaps one of them can get "misheard" and reused as a name. Kunnegun, Kunnigen, Kunnigan, Kennaken, Gennakin, Kuwachegun, Mecharneken, Majarniken, Auniken, something like that?
All of these loo9k and sound like a lot of the Aboriginal place names you see in Australia.
 

katchen

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I suspect that the British would simply call the colonies collectively "South America". And they would very likely also include Peru, which the Spanish had run into the ground by 1600 (fewer than 1 million people remaining). South American colonies would almost certainly lead to Australian colonies much more quickly for Great Britain simply because they would encourage the British to use the Southern Westerlies as a one way set of trade winds, avoiding a lot of choke points from the Cape of Good Hope (contrary winds on the route home) to the Malacca and Sunda Straits.
 
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