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Nauru Capital: Yaren TIME ZONE GMT + 12 TELEPHONE SERVICES Country Code: 674 IDD: International Direct Dialling is available Outgoing Code: Calls must be made through the international operator. EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBERS Contact local operator. REPRESENTATION IN THE UK Nauru Government Office; 3 Chesham Street. London; SW1X 8ND Tel (020) 7235 6911 Fax: (020) 7235 7423 UK REPRESENTATION Nauru British High Commission staff resident at Suva (Fiji) where they deal with enquiries relating to Nauru. TOURIST INFORMATION IN THE UK Refer to government office. LOCAL TOURIST INFORMATION Not present. PASSPORT INFORMATION Valid passport required by all. Return Ticket Required. Regulations may be subject to short-term change. Contact the embassy before departure. VISA INFORMATION Visa required prior to arrival available from Nauru High Commission Ratu Sukuna House Victoria Parade PO Box 2420 Government Buildings Suva Republic of Fiji Tel: + 679 331 3566 Fax: + 678 338 7115 email: naurulands@connect.com.fj

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NAURU about visas visas and countries notes for travellers travels and vacations news and views vocabulary and terms links collection download sign and join members page this site help about the project nauru Nauru Nauru in Internet: Official Government Pages Situation: Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands Total area: 21 km Population: 12 088 (2001) National product real growth rate: NA National product per capita: 11 540 US$ (2001) National product: 139 millionUS$ (2001) National product origin: agriculture NA, industry NA, services NA (2001) Capital: Yaren TIME ZONE GMT + 12 TELEPHONE SERVICES Country Code: 674 IDD: International Direct Dialling is available Outgoing Code: Calls must be made through the international operator. EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBERS Contact local operator. LOCAL TOURIST INFORMATION Not present. PASSPORT INFORMATION Valid passport required by all. Return Ticket Required. Regulations may be subject to short-term change. Contact the embassy before departure. VISA INFORMATION Visa required prior to arrival available from: Nauru High Commission Ratu Sukuna House Victoria Parade PO Box 2420 Government Buildings Suva Republic of Fiji Tel: + 679 331 3566 Fax: + 678 338 7115 E-mail: naurulands@connect.com.fj

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TED Case Studies Case Number: 412 Case Mnemonic: NAURU Case Name: PHOSPHATE MINING IN NAURU Case Author: Michael E. Pukrop, May, 1997 IDENTIFICATION LEGAL CLUSTERS GEOGRAPHIC CLUSTERS TRADE CLUSTERS ... OTHER FACTORS I. Identification 1. The Issue 2. Description This section contains nine parts: history, phosphate, damage, people, culture, economics, legal issues, settlement, and the future. HISTORY: The story begins in 1908, when the Germans, then in control of Nauru, began to mine the large deposits of phosphate located there. The island fell into the hands of the Australians after their soldiers liberated Nauru in the early months of World War I. The League of Nations subsequently set up a mandate system than Australia, Great Britain, and New Zealand administered together. These three states then set up the British Phosphate Commissioners to deal with the mining operation. In 1942, the Germans seized and occupied Nauru. After World War II, Australia became the chief administrator of the United Nations Trusteeship that included Nauru until independence for the island was granted in early 1968.(1) PHOSPHATE: Nauru's phosphate can be described as a cash crop, because it is the only resource with which the island can sustain an economy. Nauru exports the majority of its phosphate to Australia, which uses it as a fertilizer because its soils are poor for agriculture.(2)

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NAURU PICTURE GALLERY The island of Nauru is well known for the phosphate mining that took place there. Perhaps less well known are the Nauru people who have a very distinct and beautiful history, culture, customs, rituals and lifestyle. They were at one with their island and its surrounds. The images on this Web site are both historical and rare and show the people of Nauru as they existed before 1921. This was a time when their culture, customs and lifestyle had not been excessively disrupted by the phosphate mining and the brutal Japanese occupation during World War 2. This Web site is an important historical and anthropological statement about the Nauruan people. A traditional Nauruan village Click on the above for a larger image A road bordered with coral makes the twelve mile circuit of the island of Nauru, following the beach for the entire distance. Click on the above for a larger image A lady carrying coconut drinking vessels. In her hand she holds an implement for grating coconut. The beautiful Nauru lagoon A felled tree is floated to the village and beached and shaped to form the canoe.

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Supporter Benefits Signup Login Sources ... Pies Factoid #16 Only two countries in the world are doubly landlocked Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan Interesting Facts Make your own graph: Hold down Control and click on several. Compare All Top 5 Top 10 Top 20 Top 100 Bottom 100 Bottom 20 Bottom 10 Bottom 5 All (desc) in category: Select Category Agriculture Crime Currency Democracy Economy Education Energy Environment Food Geography Government Health Identification Immigration Internet Labor Language Manufacturing Media Military Mortality People Religion Sports Taxation Transportation Welfare with statistic: view: Correlations Printable graph / table Pie chart Scatterplot with ... * Asterisk means graphable. Added May 21 Mortality stats Multi-users ½ price Catholic stats Related Articles People who viewed "Nauru" also viewed: Marshall Islands Samoa Solomon Islands Vanuatu ... Oceania Top Graphs Richest Most Murderous Most Populous Most Militaristic ... More Stats Categories Agriculture Background Crime Currency ... Welfare Updated: May 20, 2004 Encyclopedia : Nauru Sponsored links: Nauru is an island republic in the South Pacific Ocean , formerly known as Pleasant Island . It is the world's smallest independent republic both in terms of population and land area. Much of its past prosperity derived from phosphate due to the large amount of phosphate deposits on the island, believed by one school of thought to be of guano origin but by another to be of marine origin. The phosphate is used as a fertilizer around the world and the majority of it has been exported to

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home search help worldguide ... Postcards Nauru Nauru offers little to the traveller, but that is likely to change once the phosphate bubble bursts in a few years. A colourful reef dotted with sunken WWII wrecks surrounds the island, the waters make great diving and the sport fishing is incomparable. The island is the poor little rich kid of the Pacific, wealthy yet sadly abused. Island culture has been assaulted by the weight of imported customs, junk food, fridges, televisions and electric cookers, but it does survive in a modified form. Seemingly limitless mining proceeds have made Nauruans the richest people in the Pacific, but at various stages in their history people, culture, forest, soil and then subsoil have been stripped or shipped away at the whim of foreign powers. Exploitation has become an art form. The bird poop that was the island has been an economic boon to islanders, but Nauru's interior could now only be described as an 'ecological basket case'. Full country name: Republic of Nauru Area: 21 sq km Population: Capital City: No official capital (government offices in Yaren District) People: Melanesian, Polynesian, Pacific Islanders, Asians, Europeans

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Nauru From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nauru is an island republic in the South Pacific Ocean , formerly known as Pleasant Island . It is the world's smallest independent republic both in terms of population and land area. Much of its past prosperity derived from phosphate due to the large amount of phosphate deposits on the island, believed by one school of thought to be of guano origin but by another to be of marine origin. The phosphate is used as a fertilizer around the world and the majority of it has been exported to Australia . With the exhaustion of the phosphate supplies, Nauru faces an uncertain future. Nauru currently houses a refugee detention center, under the control of Australia. Republik Naoero Republic of Nauru In Detail National motto : God's Will First Official languages English Nauruan Capital No official capital President René Harris Area Ranked 192nd ... 21 km² Negligible Population Density Ranked 191st 213/km² Independence January 31 Currency Australian dollar ... Internet TLD .NR Calling Code Yaren is the largest settlement. Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital Table of contents 1 History 2 Politics 3 Districts 4 Geography ... edit History Main article: History of Nauru Nauru was first settled by Polynesian and Melanesian settlers. The first European to arrive was Captain John Fearn in

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Nauru Jump to: Introduction Facts for the Traveler When to Go Events ... Maps Introduction Nauru offers little to the traveller, but that is likely to change once the phosphate bubble bursts in a few years. A colourful reef dotted with sunken WWII wrecks surrounds the island, the waters make great diving and the sport fishing is incomparable. The island is the poor little rich kid of the Pacific, wealthy yet sadly abused. Island culture has been assaulted by the weight of imported customs, junk food, fridges, televisions and electric cookers, but it does survive in a modified form. Seemingly limitless mining proceeds have made Nauruans the richest people in the Pacific, but at various stages in their history people, culture, forest, soil and then subsoil have been stripped or shipped away at the whim of foreign powers. Exploitation has become an art form. The bird poop that was the island has been an economic boon to islanders, but Nauru's interior could now only be described as an 'ecological basket case'. Full country name: Republic of Nauru Area: 21 sq km Population: Capital City: No official capital (government offices in Yaren District) People: Melanesian, Polynesian, Pacific Islanders, Asians, Europeans

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About us Send me a Brochure Tripbuilder (Shopping Cart) Send me a Quotation ... Pacific News member of Culture Gallery Introduction ANGLONESIA Anglonesia is a neologism used here to refer to Australia New Zealand and the United States in the Pacific (ANZUS). The progress from colonialism to independence in the Pacific Islands region (both north and south of the equator) has not brought an end to the influence of the former colonial powers. Presently, there are ten territories or dependencies linked directly to an extraregional government, and five others are constrained in their foreign policies by the terms of their free associaton compacts. Like these territories, the independent states are also affected by the political, security and economic policies of the extraregional powers. There continues to be an overlap of interests between outsiders and islanders, which is likely to persist even as more island stated begin to exert their influence more and more within the region as well as globally. On our website you find more cultural info on Anglonesia at: Australian (Culture) Aboriginal Culture Aussie Slang (dictionary) Aussie Songbook ... MELANESIA As diverse internally as they are different from each other, the islands of Melanesia - those in

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About us Send me a Brochure Tripbuilder (Shopping Cart) Send me a Quotation ... Pacific News member of Nauru Culture When the Germans annexed the place in 1888 they had no time for the islanders' dancing and were quick to ban it. Many indigenous cultural practices have followed suit, and one form of culture is now beamed into homes from Television New Zealand through TV aerials or satellite dishes, of which there are plenty. Australian Rules football has almost the status of a religion, and some children are even named after the game's greats. Nauruan islanders are among the wealthiest in the world per head of population, and cars, refrigerators and other mod-cons are commonplace. English and Nauruan, a unique Pacific language with recognisable elements of Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian, are spoken. English is the official language used for government and commerce. The clan was the traditional building block of Nauruan life, and today's electoral boundaries roughly represent traditional clan areas. Junk food is widespread, and diseases of affluence - diabetes, obesity and heart disease - are common. Most of the country's food has to be imported, so don't go expecting traditional Pacific feasts. Some pigs and chickens are raised locally, and some tropical fruit and vegetables are grown, especially around Buada Lagoon, but the island is overwhelmingly dependent on imports for its food and water.

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