Wharf (disambiguation)

Wharf (disambiguation)

A wharf is a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, roughly parallel to and alongside navigable water, where ships are loaded and unloaded.

Wharf and similar may also refer to
*The Wharf (Holdings), a company in Hong Kong
*"The Wharf (newspaper)", a newspaper based at Canary Wharf in east London
*Red Wharf, a British independent record label
*The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the technology transfer office of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
*WARF, a radio station in Akron, Ohio

People

*Benjamin Whorf, an American linguist;
*Worf, a Klingon character in Star Trek

Places

*Mockbeggar Wharf, a sandbank in Liverpool Bay in England;
*Red Wharf, a village on the southeast coast of Anglesey, also called Traeth Coch

ee also

*Wharfe (disambiguation)


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