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Kamehameha Highway is one of the main highways serving suburban and rural O‘ahu in the U.S. state of Hawai‘i.Informally known as Kam Highway, it begins at Nimitz Highway near Pearl Harbor and Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, serves the island's older western suburbs, and turns north across the O‘ahu Central Valley to the North Shore.
A satellite image of the North Shore. Due to its natural environment, proximity to Honolulu, and large waves, the North Shore is a popular area for filming. The documentary film Bustin' Down the Door chronicles the rise of professional surfing in the early 1970s. The Fox Network TV show North Shore was filmed there.
During the mid-19th century, most of the land in the area belonged to Kalama, Queen Consort of Kamehameha III and later Queen Dowager of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.She and Judge Charles Coffin Harris began a sugarcane plantation on the land, but after she died in 1870 and it failed in 1871, the land eventually passed to Harris's daughter, Nannie H. Rice, who leased 15,000 acres (61 km 2) to J. P ...
Haleʻiwa is located at 21°35'24" North, 158°6'50" West (21.590050, -158.113928), [3] southwest along Kamehameha Highway (State route 83) from Pūpūkea.At Haleʻiwa, Kamehameha Highway becomes state route 99 (at the traffic circle known as "Weed Circle"), which runs eastward up across the Oʻahu central plateau to Wahiawā.
Lāʻie is located north of Hauula and south of Kahuku along Kamehameha Highway (State Route 83). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 km 2). 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2) of it is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km 2) of it (40.65%) is water.
Kahuku is located at This community is located northwest from Laie and east from Kuilima and Kawela Bay along Kamehameha Highway ().. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km 2), of which 1.0 square mile (2.6 km 2) is land and 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2) is water.
Wahiawā is located at (21.502574, -158.022938 [4]Vehicular routes to the North Shore from Wahiawā are Kamehameha Highway (State Rte. 80) to Haleʻiwa and Kaukonahua Road (State Rte. 801) to Waialua.
Kaʻaʻawa is located at (21.557050, -157.855148 Kaʻaʻawa is north of Kualoa and directly southeast of Kahana Bay. The next place beyond Kahana is Punaluʻu.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km 2). 0.81 square miles (2.1 km 2) of it is land, and 0.54 square miles (1.4 km 2) of it is water.