There are two towns in Oz named Wauchope. The one in the New England is pronounced WARhope and the one in the Top End is pronounced WALKup; I haven't a clue how the distinctions arose.

The Goonoo Goonoo (pronounced GUNNa GUNNoo, as Sandra indicated) is just south of the New England and was the location of the earliest of the cattle camps when cattle were brought into the area in the 1830s. Cattle produce a lot of dung, in quantities much bigger than the Aborigines of the area had ever seen and there weren't any dung beetles to get rid of it. The local Aboriginal language word for "shit" was "goonoo"' with a short "oo" (as most of us might pronounce "book") in the first syllable and, because there was A LOT of it, the word was doubled. But the earliest written versions had a "u" for reasons I can't locate, although there were lots of Scots involved. This led to the current pronunciation, possibly influenced by strained relations between the local Scottish settlers and their English bureaucrats.

There are lots of Scottish place names on the northern tablelands of NSW and the story is that the more Scottish locals became more and more pissed off with the Sydney administration in the 1830s and 1840s, leading to persistent lobbying of the Colonial Office to establish a separate colony with a separate administration; their preferred name for this new colony was "New Caledonia". After a while, the Colonial Office dealt with them by establishing a new colony, but the border was 100 miles or so further north and the new colony was gazetted as "Queensland". Further, all maps of the northern tablelands of NSW would in future have, in the largest font on the map, the name "New England" printed across them.

Cheers, Rowan