Crossword clues for nauru
nauru
- Tiny Pacific republic
- Tiny Pacific nation
- Tiny island nation
- South Pacific republic
- Pleasant Island, now
- Island nation in the South Pacific
- Tiny South Pacific nation
- Tiny republic formerly called Pleasant Island
- Micronesian nation once called Pleasant Island
- Island nation in the Pacific
- World's third-smallest country, trailing only Vatican City and Monaco
- Tiny Pacific island nation
- Tiny Micronesian republic
- Third-smallest country
- The world's smallest island nation
- South Pacific microstate
- Smallest South Pacific nation
- Smallest independent republic
- Small Pacific island
- Pacific nation once called Pleasant Island
- Nation formerly called Pleasant Island
- Island that's the world's third-smallest country, after Vatican City and Monaco
- Island country northwest of Tuvalu
- Formerly Pleasant Island
- Eight-square-mile republic in the Pacific
- Country near Micronesia
- Micronesian land
- Pacific republic near the equator
- Pacific island nation
- Pacific nation since 1968
- Pacific nation once known as Pleasant Island
- Pleasant Island, today
- World's smallest island nation
- Country that's just 8 square miles in area
- South Pacific island nation that's only 8.1 square miles
- Remote land in the Pacific
- An island republic on Nauru Island
- Phosphate exports support the economy
- A small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles southwest of Hawaii
- In Micronesia west of the Gilbert Islands
- Pacific island republic near the equator
- Strategic Pacific island
- Vessel returns, carrying gold for island country
- Guru Angad keeps backing island republic
- Gold in vase turned up in Pacific island
- Set up university course about one 8 9
- Pacific island state
- Pacific island country
- Beginning to near Australia, unfortunate refugees upset to be incarcerated here
- Island nation never accepted ultimatum, riling union leaders
- South Pacific nation
- World's smallest republic by area
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
of unknown origin; formerly known as Pleasant Island (1798). Related: Nauruan (1921).
Wikipedia
Nauru ( or ), officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, to the east. It further lies northwest of Tuvalu, north of the Solomon islands, east-northeast of Papua New Guinea, southeast of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the Marshalls. With 10,084 residents in a area, Nauru is the smallest state in the South Pacific and third smallest state by area in the world, behind only Vatican City and Monaco.
Settled by native peoples from Micronesia and Polynesia, Nauru was annexed and claimed as a colony by the German Empire in the late 19th century. After World War I, Nauru became a League of Nations mandate administered by Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. During World War II, Nauru was occupied by Japanese troops, who were bypassed by the Allied advance across the Pacific. After the war ended, the country entered into UN trusteeship. Nauru gained its independence in 1968.
Nauru is a phosphate rock island with rich deposits near the surface, which allowed easy strip mining operations. It has some remaining phosphate resources which, , are not economically viable for extraction. Nauru boasted the highest per-capita income enjoyed by any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s. When the phosphate reserves were exhausted, and the island's environment had been seriously harmed by mining, the trust that had been established to manage the island's wealth diminished in value. To earn income, Nauru briefly became a tax haven and illegal money laundering centre. From 2001 to 2008, and again from 2012, it accepted aid from the Australian Government in exchange for hosting the Nauru detention centre. As a result of heavy dependence on Australia, many sources have identified Nauru as a client state of Australia.
The president of Nauru is Baron Waqa, who heads a 19-member unicameral parliament. The country is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the Asian Development Bank and the Pacific Islands Forum. Nauru also participates in the Commonwealth and Olympic Games. Recently Nauru became a member country of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The Republic of Nauru became the 189th member of the International Monetary Fund in April 2016.
Nauru can be:
- Nauru, a country in Oceania
- Nauru, Tanzania, a little village in Tanzania
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.