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http://www.nms.ac.uk/mos
Scotland and the world. The Museum of Scotland's web-site contains some material on Scottish emigration within the section on 'Industry and Empire', as well as details of their 'Scotland and the World' project which is seeking to develop international links.

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people.html
Famous Scots. The Gazetteer for Scotland <> has one of the better catalogues of famous Scots, including quite a few emigrants, arranged under different headings. There is an 'Any Word' search button for finding particular individuals but identifying emigrants requires either knowledge of who they were or a considerable amount of looking through the individual biographical sketches.

http://www.scotshistory.org/index.asp
There are quite a lot of sites on the Highland Clearances, although they are not always very useful. The Scottish history site has a brief summary and a lot of links to other sites which are worth exploring for material relating to emigration.

http://www.census.gov/population/www/ancestry.html
USA. The US Census Bureau has comparative statistics on different ethnic groups, including Scots, relating to population numbers, education, language, employment and income.

http://www.usscots.com
Another site with some relevant material.

http://www.linksnorth.com/canada-history
Canada. Carries a useful summary of Canadian history with plenty of sub-titles including references to explorers and politicians of Scottish birth.

http://www.austemb.org/history.htm
Australia. The very user-friendly site of the Australian Embassy in Washington DC, includes a useful summary of Australian history, with sections on the Aborigines and European settlement. Some important individuals are mentioned but Scots emigrants are not dealt with as such. The same is true of <www.kdu/auspeop.html>

http://nz.com/
New Zealand. New Zealand on the Web has a virtual tour of the country including a visit to Dunedin with details of its Scots origins, and photos of the Scots baronial university building reminiscent of Gilmorehill.

Other sites relating to Scots emigration tend to be either very academic or concerned with family/clan genealogy.