Nauru Guide

World War II

nauruguide — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:05:23 +0000

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

nauruguide — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:39:22 +0000

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

nauruguide — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:14:28 +0000

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

nauruguide — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:49:27 +0000

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

nauruguide — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:34:12 +0000

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

nauruguide — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:56:54 +0000

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

nauruguide — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:12:21 +0000

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

Nauru

nauruguide — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:11:44 +0000

Nauru , officially the Republic of Nauru, is an island nation in the Micronesian South Pacific. The nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in the Republic of Kiribati, 300 km due east. Nauru is the world’s smallest island nation, covering just 21 km² (8.1 sq. mi), the smallest independent republic, and the only republican state in the world without an official capital.^[1] It is the least populous member of the United Nations.

Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed and designated a colony by Germany in the late 19th century, and became a mandate territory administered by Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom following World War I. The island was occupied by Japan during World War II, and after the war entered into trusteeship again. Nauru achieved independence in 1968.

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 resorted to unusual measures to obtain income. In the 1990s, Nauru briefly became a tax haven and money laundering center. Since 2001, it has accepted aid from the Australian government; in exchange for this aid, Nauru housed, until early 2008, an offshore detention centre that held and processed asylum seekers trying to enter Australia^[3]