Australian rules is the national sport of Nauru.

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.

: 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 country also is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

Kiribati is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

The matter is being pursued in an Australian court, and initial judgments have been in favor of Nauru.

Nauru is a tiny phosphate rock island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean south of the Marshall Islands in Oceania.

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.

Nauru is moving at 104 mm per year to the north west along with the Pacific Plate.

Nauru is party to the international environmental agreements on biodiversity, climate change, desertification, law of the sea and marine dumping.

This is a list of the extreme points of Nauru, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Nauru, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Education in Nauru is both free and compulsory from age 5 through 16.

The infant mortality rate for Nauru was 10. 33 deaths for every 1000 live births, the birth rate is about 26. 09 births per 1, 000, and the overall population growth rate is 1. 9 percent.

Politics of Nauru takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Nauru is the head of government of the executive branch.

The phosphate supply has virtually all been exhausted in recent years and as such, the future of the people of Nauru is uncertain, and the challenge for the country's policy makers will be to determine a path of continued economic prosperity, without the benefits of this resource.

Since Nauru imports almost everything it consumes ( including food, water and fuel ) the need to diversify the economy and to generate other sources of revenue is of paramount importance.

Today, Nauru is almost totally dependent on trade with New Zealand, Australia and Fiji.

It is hoped that this economic activity might lift Nauru from the bottom rung of global GDP per capita.

Air service is provided by Our Airline, formerly Air Nauru.

Following the indepencence of Nauru, the flag of Nauru was raised for the first time.

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.

Among coral tropic islands for example are Maldives, Tonga, Nauru and Polynesia.

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

There are a number of " high islands " which rise no more than a few feet above sea level, often classified as " islets or rocks ", while some " low islands ", such as Makatea, Nauru, Niue, Henderson and Banaba, as uplifted coral islands, rise several hundred feet above sea level.

After World War II, the sport experienced a small amount of growth in the Pacific region, particularly in Nauru, Papua New Guinea and later New Zealand.

Nauru became an Australian mandate, while Germany's other territories in Micronesia were given as a mandate to Japan and were named the South Pacific Mandate.

In December 1999, four major United States banks banned dollar transactions with four Pacific island states, including Nauru.

After much debate many of the immigrants were transported to Nauru, an arrangement known in Australia as the " Pacific Solution ".

In December 1999, four major United States banks banned dollar transactions with four Pacific island states, including Nauru.

Taiwan and Nauru had shared diplomatic ties for 22 years ; Taiwan has enjoyed diplomatic ties with several Pacific countries even in the face of the " One China policy " by Beijing.

* Nauru Pacific Line

Yaren, in earlier times Makwa / Moqua, is a district and constituency of the Pacific nation of Nauru.

Relations between Australia and Nauru were essentially framed by the Pacific Solution, whereby Nauru housed a detention centre for unauthorised refugee applicants who had attempted to enter Australia, and Australia provided financial aid in return.

* Nauru Pacific Line – a shipping lane located in Nauru

Scotty grew up in Anabar in the north of Nauru ; he attended secondary school from 1960 until 1964 and studied law at the University of the South Pacific in the Fijian capital city Suva.

* University of the South Pacific, University in the South Pacific, Main Campus in Fiji, and Smaller Campus in Samoa, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niu, Solomon Islands, Tonga.

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.

The advisory opinion was issued in response to a formal request made by the International Seabed Authority following two prior applications the Authority's Legal and Technical Commission had received from the Republics of Nauru and Tonga regarding proposed activities ( a plan of work to explore for polymetallic nodules ) to be undertaken in the Area by two State-sponsored contractors ( Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. ( sponsored by the Republic of Nauru ) and Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd. ( sponsored by the Kingdom of Tonga ).

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

* Jaluit Atoll was the base from which the Japanese Navy seized Nauru and Ocean Island.

* Japanese Invasion of Nauru and Ocean island

It has also occurred as a vagrant on Christmas Island ( in the Indian Ocean ), Malaysia, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Nauru.

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