: Includes five archipelagoes ; Makatea in French Polynesia is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean-the others are Banaba ( Ocean Island ) in Kiribati and Nauru

The islands share maritime boundaries with the Federated States of Micronesia to the west, Wake Island to the north, Kiribati to the south-east, and Nauru to the south.

The islands are located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia, and south of the U. S. territory of Wake Island, to which it lays claim.

Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom signed the Nauru Island Agreement in 1919, creating a board known as the British Phosphate Commission ( BPC ).

Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean — the others are Banaba ( Ocean Island ) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia.

Widely grown as an ornamental, the species has become naturalised in the Southern United States, Christmas Island, the Cook Islands, Galapagos Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Sri Lanka and Tonga amongst many other locales.

Guam, Nauru, Ocean Island, the Gilbert Islands and Wake Island.

Additionally outside the region, Nauru is a member or participant of the ACP ( Lomé Convention ), the Alliance of Small Island States, the Asian Development Bank, the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ), the Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), the G-77, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Olympic Committee, the ITU, the NAM, the World Meteorological Organization and the World Trade Organization.

This species has also been reported from numerous Pacific islands, including American Samoa, the Chagos Archipelago, Easter Island, Christmas Island, the Cook Islands, the Marquesas Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Guam, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Caledonia, the Marianas Islands, Palau, the Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, the Hawaiian Islands, and Vanuatu.

These include the Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, * Nauru, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

A consistent and vocal campaigner for refugees and asylum seekers, Bartlett was the only Australian parliamentarian to have visited every refugee detention centre in Australia, as well as those on Christmas Island and Nauru ( detention centres off the Australian mainland, see Australia's Pacific Solution ) where he went four times to meet with detainees.

* Nauru, Micronesian South Pacific, earlier known as Pleasant Island.

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Banaba Island (; also Ocean Island ), an island in the Pacific Ocean, is a solitary raised coral island west of the Gilbert Island chain and 300 km east of Nauru.

The voyage departed from Australia to Nauru Island in the highlighted box

This the project achieved and it saw the granting of asylum to over half the refugees on Nauru and the release of Aladdin Salanin who was in solitary confinement on Manus Island, New Guinea.

Nauru Island

USP is owned by the governments of 12 Pacific Island countries: the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

Detention centres were set up on Christmas Island, Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, and on the tiny island nation of Nauru.

* Nauru, formerly part of German New Guinea ( Australia in effective control, formally together with United Kingdom and New Zealand ) from 17 December 1920, 1 November 1947 made into a United Nations trust territory ( same three powers ) until its 31 January 1968 independence as a Republic-all that time under an Administrator

* Nauru, since 21 October 1887 a German protectorate, was under the following Reichskommissare:

In 1998 Air Nauru came under the regulatory control of the Civil Aviation Authority of Australia and since then has been a select foreign carrier holding an Australian Air Operator's Certificate ( AOC ).

Delaporte and his family, including his wife, Samole ( also a missionary ), arrived in Nauru under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sent by Central Union Church of Honolulu.

Before Nauru came under European rule, it was governed by the king who made laws that were enforced by their own chiefs.

The first goal came about in 1919, just after World War I, when the war-time occupation of Nauru and other Pacific islands by Imperial Germany ended, and Nauru came under the mandate of Australia, New Zealand and Britain.

Relations between Adeang, as Speaker of the Parliament of Nauru, and the Stephen Administration, remained under severe strain following the ruling, and the Administration's ministers continued to exercise executive powers without the support of Parliament.

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In 2012, the Labor government under Julia Gillard reintroduced one aspect of the Pacific Solution, proposing to reopen both Nauru and Manus Island for offshore processing.

: The referral provision in the Constitution is an unusual process, not always available under other written constitutions but, nevertheless, Article 55 has been used on a number of occasions in Nauru.

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A Great Britain national Australian rules football team | British Bulldog player is chased down and tackled by a Nauru national Australian rules football team | Nauru Chief opponent as he tries to get a kick away.

Sponsored by their respective governments, they were submitted by Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. and Tonga Offshore Mining Limited.

A 15 year exploration contract was granted by the Authority to Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. on 22 July 2011 and to Tonga Offshore Mining Limited on 12th January 2012.

Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed by Germany in the late 19th century, and extraction of the island's phosphate began in 1906.

Nauru was first settled by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples at least 3, 000 years ago.

Today the twelve tribes are represented by the twelve-pointed star in the flag of Nauru.

Phosphate was discovered on Nauru in 1900 by the prospector Albert Ellis.

In 1914, following the outbreak of World War I, Nauru was captured by Australian troops, after which Britain held control until 1920.

They were returned to Nauru by the BPC ship Trienza in on 1 January 1946.

In particular, Nauru made a legal complaint against Australia's failure to remedy the environmental damage caused by phosphate mining.

Nauru appealed to the International Court of Justice to compensate for the damage from almost a century of phosphate strip-mining by foreign companies.

The United States Department of State issued a report identifying Nauru as a major money laundering center, used by narcotics traffickers and Russian organized crime figures.

In 2001, Nauru was brought to world attention by the Tampa affair, 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.

Nauru has yet to develop a plan to remove the innumerable coral pinnacles created by mining and make those lands suitable for human habitation.

The United States Department of State issued a report identifying Nauru as a major money laundering center, used by narcotics traffickers and organized crime figures.

Rene Harris was finally able to claim power as the president of Nauru in March 2001 when he was elected to the presidency by the parliament ; his term was to last three years, presumably ending in 2004.

As noted above, offshore banking has been one arena into which Nauru has traversed, however, the rewards are limited by growing concern about the ethical parameters of this business.

Thus, Nauru was left to handle the immense and expensive task of restoring large chunks of land which were destroyed by the mining.

The case was soon afterwards settled out of court by Australia, with Britain and New Zealand also contributing to the reparations sought by Nauru.