Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Nauru, [c] officially the Republic of Nauru [d], formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Micronesia, part of the Oceania region in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba of Kiribati about 300 kilometres (190 mi) to the east.
An aerial image of Nauru in 2002. Anabare Bay is on the east side. Buada Lagoon is the darker region in the south west. [1]Nauru is positioned in the Nauru Basin of the Pacific Ocean, on a part of the Pacific Plate that formed at a mid oceanic ridge at 132 Ma. [2]
An aerial image of Nauru in 2002 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program. Regenerated vegetation covers 63% of land that was mined. [3] Nauru is a raised coral atoll positioned in the Nauru Basin of the Pacific Ocean, on a part of the Pacific Plate that formed at a mid-oceanic ridge at 132 Ma.
Nauru is a phosphate rock island, and its primary economic activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island. [2] With the exhaustion of phosphate reserves, its environment severely degraded by mining, and the trust established to manage the island's wealth significantly reduced in value, the government of Nauru has ...
Buada is a district in the Pacific nation of Nauru.It is the only district in Buada Constituency.It has a population of 969 (2021). [1] Several things are special about Buada compared to the coastal areas, it is entirely inland, it has a lagoon, and the soil and vegetation here is more rich.
Anabar is a district in the Pacific country of Nauru. [citation needed] Geography. It is part of the Anabar Constituency [citation needed].
Nauru was once occupied by the Japanese during World War II. Command Ridge contained their communications bunker on Nauru, and some remnants of it remain, including rusted WWII guns/artillery. The bunker itself contains Japanese writing on the walls [2] Japanese relic from World War II on Command Ridge.
Ijuw is a district in the country of Nauru, located in the northeast of the island. The area covers 1.1 km 2 and has a population of 276, [ 1 ] making Ijuw the least populated district in the country.