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	Nauru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Nauru (pronounced /næˈuː.ɹuː/), formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island republic in the South Pacific Ocean.
		Nauru is a small phosphate rock island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands.
		Nauru's climate is extremely humid year-round because of its proximity to the Equator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nauru (1273 words)

	History of Nauru -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nauru had little contact with the outside world until (additional info and facts about whaling) whaling ships and other traders began to visit in the (The decade from 1830 to 1839) 1830s.
		In 2001, Nauru was brought to world attention by the saga of the (additional info and facts about MV Tampa) MV Tampa, a Norwegian cargo ship at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between Australia, Norway and Indonesia.
		Nauru was also approached by the U.S. with a deal to modernize Nauru's infrastructure in exchange for suppression of the island's lax banking laws that allow activities that are illegal in other countries to flourish.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/history_of_nauru.htm (1031 words)

	Republic of Nauru (Nauru)
		Nauru's capital is Yaren administrative center Nauru is the smallest republic in the world and has no capital.
		Nauru existed as an independent island society until it was annexed by Germany in 1888 as part of the Marshall Islands Protectorate.
		During a 1994 visit to Nauru, a piece of Betty flap was found near the wing behind the airfield.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/nauru.html (458 words)

	Republic of Nauru
		Nauru's constitution -- adopted on January 29, 1968, and amended on May 17, 1968 -- established it as a republic with a parliamentary system of government.
		The new Nauru Island Council has very limited powers and functions now as an advisory to the national government on local matters and is bound to concentrate its efforts on local activities.
		Furthermore the Nauru Island Council is charged with the dual objectives of rejuvenating local government by concentrating on activities more relevant to Nauruans, and to ensure that the serious shortcomings of the old Council are not repeated.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~ogden/piir/pacific/nauru.html (1018 words)

	ipedia.com: History of Nauru Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nauru had little contact with the outside world until whaling ships and other traders began to visit in the 1830s.
		During the post-war period, Nauru was administered by Australia as a UN Trust Territory.
		In 2001, Nauru was brought to world attention by the saga of the MS Tampa, a Norwegian cargo ship at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between Australia, Norway and Indonesia.
	www.ipedia.com /history_of_nauru.html (606 words)

	Nauru on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nauru was important for its high-grade phosphate deposits, now depleted; the possibilty of mining the residual deposits is being explored.
		Nauru was visited in 1798 by the British and annexed in 1888 by Germany.
		Nauru was administered by Australia, Britain, and New Zealand under a UN trusteeship until 1968, when it became one of the world's smallest independent states.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Nauru.asp (842 words)

	Nauru (09/05)
		In 1989 Nauru filed suit against Australia in the International Court of Justice in The Hague for damages caused by mining while the island was under Australian jurisdiction.
		Nauru does not currently have an embassy in the United States but does have a UN Mission at 800 2d Ave, Suite 400D, New York, New York 10017 (tel: 212-937-0074, fax: 212-937-0079).
		Nauru reportedly received about $10 million in assistance from Australia in exchange for agreeing to house the refugees while their asylum applications are adjudicated.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/16447.htm (1990 words)

	Encyclopedia: Nauru
		The Nauru detention centre is an asylum seeker detention and processing centre on the tiny island nation of Nauru.
		Nauru (Lat/Long 0 32 S, 166 55 E) is a tiny phosphate rock island located in the South Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands in Oceania.
		Nauru has one 24 km paved road that circles the island and a dirt track that leads to the Nauru Phosphate Corporation stockpile and offices.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nauru (4752 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Nauru loses contact with the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nauru's telephone system collapsed on 8 January amid political chaos, and since then the island has only been contactable when ships equipped with satellite telephones made stops there, the AFP news agency reported.
		Nauru's diplomats in New Zealand confirmed to the agency that apart from these few calls, they had been unable to contact home for weeks.
		The island has also begun interning asylum seekers while their applications to live in Australia are processed, in return for aid from Canberra.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2787401.stm (449 words)

	Paradise for Sale: CHAPTER TWO
		Nauru came under the German Protectorate on April 16, 1888, and a ban on firearms was declared.
		Nauru was now a part of this system; the traders had to pay a tax to conduct business on Nauru, and each islander had to pay a head tax in copra.
		Although Nauru had missed the era of "flbirding," or the roundup of natives for the slave trade, because of its remoteness and small size, good labor was in short supply throughout the western Pacific.
	ucpress.edu /books/pages/8453/8453.ch02.html (6590 words)

	NAURU, Travel and Tourism: Permanent Mission of the Republic of Nauru to the United Nations
		Nauru was the leader in opening up the glories of the Central Pacific to travellers by estabilshing the region's first modern international airline.
		Nauru is unique in regards to fishing as it is surrounded by very deep water and most pelagic species can be caught a stone throw from the reef.
		Air Nauru is the national airlines of the country and connect it with Pohnpei, Manila, Guam, Tarawa, Suva-Nadi, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane.
	www.un.int /nauru/tourism.html (486 words)

	Situation in the 'mined-out' island of Nauru worsens
		The South Pacific island of Nauru was ruthlessly dug up by the Phosphates Commission, comprising Australia, Britain and New Zealand, at a time when the three were part of the British empire.
		The island was also the refuge sought recently by hundreds of asylum seekers whose treatment since, by the Australian government, has outraged human rights campaigners inside and outside the country (not to mention the refugee families themselves)
		The Government identifies Nauru as Australia's next priority in the Pacific after the intervention in the Solomon Islands and the $2.5 billion, five-year rescue for Papua New Guinea.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press235.htm (829 words)

	Nauru - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The Republic of Nauru (pronounced nah-OO-roo), formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island republic in the South Pacific Ocean.
		At present, Nauru's days as a banking centre are waning, with anti-avoidance legislation introduced and foreign hot money leaving the country.
		However, the island is an environmental disaster area because of decades of phosphate mining, and the potential for large-scale agriculture is minimal.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Nauru (1311 words)

	Focus on Nauru
		Half the population of 2,400 was shipped to Truk (Chuuk) Island in the Caroline Group and nearly 500 of them died in exile.
		In 1993, Nauru's suit against Australia in the International Court of Justice was settled out of court with 107 million Australian dollars being handed to the Nauruan Government over a twenty year period to repair the devastation of the topside plateau.
		The flood of asylum seekers is seemingly unquenchable and Nauru may well have found a new source of income as a buffer zone in Australia's Pacific solution to its refugee problems.
	www.janeresture.com /nauru_focus (631 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Business
		On May 20, Nauru's opposition party asked for a parliamentary probe into claims by a lawmaker, Fabian Ribauw, that passports are still being sold by "high government functionaries and public servants" for as much as $50,000 each.
		Nauru President Rene Harris and Finance Minister Kinza Clodumar are trying to arrange refinancing of the loan, according to Helen Bogdan, 58, a Melbourne-based Nauru government spokeswoman.
		Nauru always hoped to be able to repay in full, she said.
	starbulletin.com /2004/06/02/business/story4.html (858 words)

	The Island of Nauru - The Hiveports Community
		The history of the tiny island (21 sq km) over 1200 miles away from any major land mass is a tragic one, but few have ever heard it told.
		A small rock was taken from the central area of the island by a foreign surveyer in the early 20th century.
		Nauru is in itself a prime example of man's arrogance and ignorance in his own actions, not to mention the wake of destruction humans leave behind.
	www.hiveports.com /index.php?showtopic=2168 (1585 words)

	(4/26/2003) Nauru Island: Far Side Of Paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For a while, Nauru was the richest per capita nation in the South Pacific and the envy of its larger neighbors.
		In a hypothetical example of how Nauru would benefit by aiding with the escape of a North Korean nuclear scientist, a member of the Nauru delegation was told that their country would be given $1 million.
		Whether Nauru aims to be a mini-Singapore or merely a mini-Saipan, such fanciful goals will amount to little should even the most moderate of predictions about seal level rise come to pass.
	www.monitor.net /monitor/0304a/nauru.html (2527 words)

	Case Study
		Nauru's phosphate can be described as a cash crop, because it is the only resource with which the island can sustain an economy.
		The stated goal was that Nauru desired compensation from Australia for the environmental damage that resulted from the mining of the phosphate that took place prior to Nauru's independence in 1968.
		A ring of sand is on the coasts, and the island is surrounded by a reef.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/NAURU.htm (2470 words)

	NAURU - Australia's Island of Shame - How we treat people seeking asylum. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		THESE photographs, smuggled out of Nauru reveal for the first time the overcrowding, the sickness and the fly blown squalor facing asylum seekers caught up in Australia's Pacific solution in the tiny island's detention centres.
		The two camps on Nauru - "Topside", set on a hot dusty plateau in the centre of the island, and "State House" in an airless hollow closer to the coast - are run at a cost of $72 million a year to Australian taxpayers.
		In stark contrast to the living conditions of the asylum seekers are the profits being reaped from the island by Australian tradesmen, including carpenters, electricians and builders who are earning up to $5000 a week in return for signing secrecy conditions.
	www.country-liberal-party.com /pages/refugees.k.htm (952 words)

	Nauru Island Information 06/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The island of Nauru is only 8.2 square miles, but is home to over 10,000 people.
		Nauru's economy is based on fishing and phosphate mining, although the rich phosphate resources are predicted to be exhausted by the turn of the century.
		Nauru is one of the smallest republics in the world.
	www.pnl.gov /energyscience/06_99/ws-sidebar.htm (215 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Nauru loses contact with the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nauru, an isolated speck in the southwest Pacific with a population of 12,000, is in a "critical situation", according to the last message received by the outside world.
		The situation is compounded by the fact that when contact was last made, a battle was raging for power between President Dowiyogo and the man he unseated in January, Rene Harris.
		It is a sad demise for an island which not long ago boasted one of the world's highest per capita incomes through lucrative phosphate mining.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2787401.stm (449 words)

	Freedom in the World 1999 - 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nauru officially became a member of the United Nations in July 1999.
		Nauru also became a member country of the British Commonwealth of Nations on May 1, 1999.
		Nauru, a small island 1,600 miles northeast of New Zealand in the west-central Pacific, became a German protectorate in the 1880s.
	freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2000/countryratings/nauru.htm (552 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Nauru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nauru's phosphate deposits began to be mined early in the 20th century by a German-British consortium; the island was occupied by Australian forces in World War I. Nauru achieved independence in 1968 and joined the UN in 1999.
		Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands
		Revenues of this tiny island have traditionally come from exports of phosphates, but reserves are now depleted.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/nr.html (924 words)

	Nauru Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Nauru offers little to the traveller, but that is likely to change once the phosphate bubble bursts in a few years.
		A colourful reef surrounds the island, the waters make great diving and the sport fishing is incomparable.
		Disclaimer: We've tried to make the information on this web site as accurate as possible, but it is provided 'as is' and we accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience sustained by anyone resulting from this information.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/pacific/nauru (118 words)

	Memories of Nauru
		Nauru was also known as Pleasant Isle many years ago.
		Her father, mother and herself had lived on the island for about 14 years.
		Her father was an overseer for the British Phosphate Commission on the open cut fields.
	www.geocities.com /bobcarmich/nauru.html (344 words)

	Nauru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A pretty raised atoll with a surrounding reef which is exposed at low tide, the Republic of Nauru is 12 miles in circumference and just over 8 square miles.
		A small isolated Central Pacific island, it lies some 26 miles south of the Equator and is readily accessible by regular services on the island's national courier, Air Nauru, from major Pacific ports.
		The mining of phosphate has been the mainstay of the island's economy since the 1900s, providing the locals with a steady source of income.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /nauru/introduction.asp (127 words)

	Nauru, where are you? \| MetaFilter
		The tiny island nation of Nauru (pop 12,329) once had one of the highest per-capita incomes in the world.
		After essentially destroying the entire interior of the island by strip-mining - to a degree that I believe at one point the population was considering moving en masse to a different island - Nauru turned to offshore banking of the shadiest kind.
		Nauru is either the best case of life immitating art I've ever seen or Ambler could see the future very clearly.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/23766 (1459 words)

	Nauru
		The Republic of Nauru, with a coastline of 30 kilometres, is just one island located north of the Solomon Islands and just south of the equator.
		The population of Nauru is just 9,500 with the majority being Nauruans.
		During the early 1800's, Nauru was a base for American whalers.
	www.hideawayholidays.com.au /nauru.htm (230 words)

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