World War II

Japanese forces occupied the island on 26 August 1942.The Japanese built an airfield on the island which was bombed in March 1943, preventing food supplies from reaching the island. The Japanese deported 1,200 Nauruans to work as labourers in the Chuuk islands, where 463 died. The island was liberated on 13 September 1945 when the Australian warship HMAS Diamantina approached the island and Japanese forces surrendered. Arrangements were made by the BPC to repatriate Nauruans from Chuuk, and they were returned to Nauru by the BPC ship Trienza in January 1946 In 1947, a trusteeship was approved by the United Nations, and Australia, New Zealand and the UK again became trustees of the island.

Denigomodu

Denigomodu is one of the administrative districts Nauru. It is situated in the western part of the island and it is an area of 1.18 km ², 2,827 people live in it. District Denigomodu is to a large extent, settlement workers Fosforytowej for Nauruańskiej Corporation (NPC).

Economy

The backbone of the economy is the mining fosforytów (mainly by foreign consortia: British, Australian and New Zealand), which destroyed 80-90% of the area of the island. But in the short term deposits may be exhausted. After the change of legislation in 90 years Nauru became a tax haven is important in this part of the world. Includes import most goods, including potable water. Tourism due to the degradation of the island is not here in almost all developed

Politics

Nauru is a republic with a parliamentary system of government. The president is both the head of state and of government. An 18-member unicameral parliament is elected every three years. The parliament elects a president from its members, who appoints a cabinet of five to six members. Nauru does not have a formal structure for political parties; candidates typically stand as independents. 15 of the 18 members of the current parliament are independents, and alliances within the government are often formed on the basis of extended family ties. Three parties that have been active in Nauruan politics are the Democratic Party, Nauru First and the Centre Party.

The fact that Nauru is a democracy makes Nauru a rare and atypical counterexample of the traditional theory of the rentier state, as the sale of Nauru’s natural resource has not led to authoritarianism.

Foreign relations

Following independence in 1968, Nauru joined the Commonwealth as a Special Member, and became a full member in 2000. Nauru was admitted to the Asian Development Bank in 1991 and to the UN in 1999. It is a member of the Pacific Islands Forum, the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program, the South Pacific Commission, and the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission. The US Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program operates a climate-monitoring facility on the island.

Nauru and Australia have close diplomatic ties. In addition to informal defence arrangements, the September 2005 Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries provides Nauru with financial aid and technical assistance, including a Secretary of Finance to prepare Nauru’s budget, and advisers on health and education. This aid is in return for Nauru’s housing of asylum seekers while their applications for entry into Australia are processed. Nauru uses the Australian dollar as its official currency.

Nauru has used its position as a member of the UN to gain financial support from both Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China by changing its position on the political status of Taiwan. During 2002, Nauru signed an agreement to establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China on 21 July. This move followed China’s promise to provide more than US$60 million in aid. In response, Taiwan severed diplomatic relations with Nauru two days later. Nauru later re-established links with Taiwan on 14 May 2005,^[24] and diplomatic ties with China were officially severed on 31 May 2005; however, the PRC continues to maintain a diplomatic presence in the island nation.

When to Go

Nauru is always hot and humid, with an average temperature of 25°C (77°F). Don’t go from November to February. That’s the cyclone season and even if you don’t get a big storm it can still be unpleasantly humid. Go at any other time of the year, when the weather is somewhat tempered by easterly trade winds.

Yaren

Yaren, in earlier times Makwa, is a district and constituency of the Pacific nation of Nauru. It is the de facto capital of Nauru.