New Zealand State Highway 43

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Regions:

  • Taranaki
  • Manawatu -Wanganui

The New Zealand State Highway 43 (SH 43) " Forgotten World Highway" is a road of national trunk road network in New Zealand and the first Heritage Highway ( analogous transmission: Heritage Road, analogous to the German roads in Germany ).

The SH 43 connects the villages in Taumarunui Ruapehu District and Stratford in Stratford District on the North Island of New Zealand over a distance of 155 kilometers. With an average of 150 vehicles per day, it is the New Zealand Highway with the lowest volume of traffic.

The name " Forgotten World Highway" is due to the remote location of the road in a pristine area and the remote location to the administrative centers whose seat for the respective districts are the two endpoints. Through his numerous references to the history of the region, the interesting variety of landscapes and numerous geological features that road, however, especially for tourists a special charm. Around three hours is required for the route in one direction with the cars, campervans require an hour more. The highway winds over four mountain saddles, by a single-track tunnel and along a tortuous river valley. About eleven kilometers long, are unpaved gravel road with split ceiling.

Course of the road

  • Km 0: Taumarunui ( branch from SH4 )
  • Km 10: Te Maire
  • Km 25: Aukopae
  • Km 42: turn-off to Stratford (SH 43 and Ohura )
  • Km 47: Tatu
  • Km 63: Tangarakau Gorge
  • Km 73: Tahora
  • Km 80: Kohuratahi
  • Km 90: Whangamomona
  • Km 98: Pohokura
  • Km 109: Te Wera
  • Km 116: Huikama
  • Km 119: Strathmore
  • Km 132: Douglas
  • Km 145: Toko
  • Km 155: Stratford

Up to Whangamomona these places or place names settlements fewer people or former places of human habitation or economic life.

Attractions

A selection of attractions and special features along the route, other places worth seeing are partially a few kilometers away from the Forgotten World Highway:

  • Taumarunui has a long tradition in Māori, many more meetings took place here. Today the town has a station on the main line Auckland - Wellington.
  • Te Maire Reserve, large contiguous Podocarpus forest with walking trails
  • Nukunuku Museum, with exhibits of the first settlers
  • Aukopae tunnel, former road tunnel, no longer used since 1968
  • Nevins Lookout, lookout with views to the volcanoes
  • The Tangarakau Gorge, Podocarpus forest
  • Morgan 's Grave, grave of the early explorer of the region, Joshua Morgan, who in 1892 died of illness here at the age of 35 years
  • Moki Tunnel, built in 1936 180 -meter-long single-track tunnel, whose construction cost many fossils have been found. Today, above the tunnel portal is the name Hobbits Hole
  • Tahora Saddle, viewpoint on the region and on two rail tunnels
  • Whangamomona, the place is known for its historic hotel and for that mid-January each year the Republic Whangamomona is proclaimed.
  • Whangamomona Saddle, Pohokura Saddle, Strathmore Saddle: Mountain saddles with views of the hill country, from the top of the " Strathmore Saddle " one has with good visibility to the east, the three volcanoes of Tongariro National Park, Ruapehu, Tongariro and Ngauruhoe and to the west of Mount Taranaki.

Numerous signs of former settlements and farm land along the road testify of earlier attempts of colonization and economic exploitation of the wild hill country.

Near the village Strathmore a road branches off in a secluded valley in which settled the first settlers around the year 1900. It was here, in memory of the Bridge to Nowhere in the Whanganui National Park, an identical Bridge to Somewhere ( Bridge to Somewhere ).

Abandoned building on the Forgotten World Highway

Seen from the Forgotten World Highway Mount Taranki from

Hotel in Whangamomona

Moki Tunnel, also Hobbits Hole

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