Wanganui

Meanings

1. A city and territorial authority in Manawatū-Whanganui region, on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand.
2. A major river in the Manawatū-Whanganui region, North Island, New Zealand, which flows into the Tasman Sea at Wanganui. Official name: Whanganui River.
3. A river in the West Coast region, South Island, New Zealand, which also flows into the Tasman Sea.
4. A locality in the Byron council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
5. An epoch from 5.28 to present million years ago, a subdivision of the Neogene-Quaternary.

Etymology

From Māori Whanganui. The spelling of Sense 1 and Sense 2 reflects a dialectal realization of the ⟨wh⟩ phoneme as [ˀw] in Taranaki and Manawatū-Whanganui.