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The Whanganui River is a major river in the North Island of New Zealand. It is the country's third-longest river, and has special status owing to its importance to the region's Māori people . In March 2017 it became the world's second natural resource (after Te Urewera ) to be given its own legal identity, with the rights, duties and ...
It was renamed as the Whanganui Riverboat Centre, and re-opened on 24 February 1995. [5] [1] After being buried in the river mud for nearly 40 years, the Waimarie was salvaged by volunteers in 1993. The restoration of the vessel was adopted as a sesquicentennial project in Whanganui.
Manunui (Māori: Mananui) is a small Whanganui River settlement, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of Taumarunui on State Highway 4, in New Zealand's King Country. It was once known as Waimarino, but John Burnand of the Ellis and Burnand sawmilling firm renamed it Manunui around 1905. [2]
The Whanganui National Park is a national park located in the North Island of New Zealand. Established in 1986, [1] it covers an area of 742 km 2 bordering the Whanganui River. [2] It incorporates areas of Crown land, former state forest and a number of former reserves.
Whanganui (/ ˈ hw ɒ ŋ ən uː i / ⓘ; [4] Māori:), also spelt Wanganui, [5] is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand.The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway.
The region is dominated and defined by two significant river catchments, the Whanganui and the Manawatu. The Whanganui River, in the northwest, is the longest navigable river in New Zealand. The river was extremely important to early Māori as it was the southern link in a chain of waterways that spanned almost two-thirds of the North Island ...
Five years ago, the Whanganui River was recognized as a living person in a groundbreaking New Zealand law. Ngahuia Twomey-Waitai, 28, walks into the Whanganui River and reaches down to splash ...
Jerusalem, named for the Biblical Jerusalem (in Māori, Hiruhārama), is a settlement 66 kilometres (41 mi) up the Whanganui River from Whanganui, New Zealand.Originally called Patiarero, it was one of the largest settlements on the Whanganui River in the 1840s with several hundred Ngāti Hau inhabitants of the iwi Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi. [1]