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New Zealand State Highway 43 (SH 43), also called the Forgotten World Highway, is a road that runs 148 km from Stratford in Taranaki to Taumarunui in the King Country. It contains the only unsealed portion of the New Zealand state highway network .
SH 1N is used in official documentation, SH 1 is used on maps and signs. The Interislander ferry connects State Highway 1N and State Highway 1S between Wellington and Picton. SH 1 at Taupiri: SH 1 at Cambridge: Gordonton: 41.9 Forms an eastern bypass of Hamilton. Route currently incomplete due to closure of the Holland Road level crossing in ...
New Zealand has been excluded from maps at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. in the United States, in IKEA stores, on the map of the board games Pandemic [4] and Risk, on the map of the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in which Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key participated, at a world map seal at the United Nations ...
Whangamōmona is a small township in the Stratford District and Manawatū-Whanganui Region of New Zealand. It lies on State Highway 43, the "Forgotten World Highway", 65 kilometres (40 mi) north-east of Stratford and 55 kilometres (34 mi) south-west of Ōhura.
The Tāngarākau River is a river of the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island. It flows south for 94 km (58 mi) from its source 8 km (5.0 mi) west of Ōhura in the King Country to reach the Whanganui River. State Highway 43, known as the Forgotten World Highway, travels through the Tāngarākau Gorge.
On State Highway 3 New Plymouth is 39 km (24 mi) north, Inglewood 21 km (13 mi) north, Eltham 11 km (6.8 mi) south and Hāwera 30 km (19 mi) south. On State Highway 43 Taumarunui is 146 km (91 mi) to the east. This road is known as "The Forgotten World Highway", due to the scarcity of settlement along the road in contrast to its earlier history ...
Road maps usually number state highways in this fashion. Of the total state highway network, New Zealand currently has 363 km (226 mi) of motorways and expressways with grade-separated access and they carry ten percent of all New Zealand traffic. The majority of the state highway network is made up of single-carriageway roads with one lane each ...
The Stratford District is a territorial authority of New Zealand split between the North Island regions of Taranaki and Manawatū-Whanganui. The region was initially populated by seasonal Māori villages. European colonisation did not penetrate into the hilly and isolated inland region until the end of the New Zealand Wars in the 1860s.