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Remote land in the Pacific
Answer for the clue "Remote land in the Pacific ", 5 letters:
nauru
Alternative clues for the word nauru
- Tiny South Pacific nation
- Set up university course about one 8 9
- Micronesian nation once called Pleasant Island
- In Micronesia west of the Gilbert Islands
- Tiny island nation
- Strategic Pacific island
- Pleasant Island, now
- Island nation never accepted ultimatum, riling union leaders
- Tiny republic formerly called Pleasant Island
Word definitions for nauru in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
of unknown origin; formerly known as Pleasant Island (1798). Related: Nauruan (1921).
Usage examples of nauru.
While everyone on Nauru drives expensive cars, there are fewer miles of road to drive on every year.
The city, big, uncountably massive, had a way of turning viciously small, like Nauru, digging itself into disappearance.
In sixty-eight Australia grants full independence and the chiefs take over the Nauru Phosphate Corporation, which is exporting two million tons of gull poop a year.
Australia retained Nauru as well as New Guinea, and New Zealand retained possession of Western Samoa.
The first territory to build on the precedent created by the Cook Islands was Nauru, the tiny phosphate island under Australian administration.
The Forum, like the South Pacific Commission, has grown with the list of independent nations, and in 1987, its members were the Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, the Solomons, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Federated States of Micronesia, Vanuatu and Western Samoa, as well as Australia and New Zealand.
Six of the new Pacific nations have undergone that test since independence: Western Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, the Solomons and Papua New Guinea.
To places like Nauru, the Cook Islands, Pitcairn and other sandbars that made Mafia, Inc.
Nicaraguan wiring money to the Nauru account every time you happened to show up in Geneva.
Anyone with the contacts and connections to set up banking in Nauru might have been getting ready to vanish for years.
Leaving the boy to go his way, the men boarded one of the shuttles that ran continuously between here and Nauru, and were soon on the island.
Keiki Moana, their ancestral refuge with a few human caretakers in Hawaii, Kelekolio Pela setting forth the Dao Kai, the cession of Nauru to descendants who had become a nation.
It was as if the wall that showed the arrival of the ancestors at Nauru dissolved and he looked straight out at planets and stars.
In the days and nights while Malolo cruised from Nauru, they had come to share much laughter and some seriousness.
Cassidy, followed out a pattern which proved successful at Rabaul, Buka, Conis, Nauru, the Gilberts and Marshall Islands.