Nauru
Nauru: Travel tips, articles, photos, gallery, cities database, population, pics, flags, statistics, free maps online
Back to Countries, Click to read the whole article: Nauru
Introduction - Nauru: | Location - Nauru: | Location | Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, south of the Marshall Islands | | Geographic coordinates | 0 32 S, 166 55 E | | Map references | Oceania | | Area | total: 21 sq km
land: 21 sq km
water: 0 sq km | | Area comparative | about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC | | Land boundaries | 0 km | | Coastline | 30 km | | Maritime claims | territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm | | Climate | tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February) | | Terrain | sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center | | Elevation extremes | lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: unnamed location along plateau rim 61 m | | Natural resources | phosphates, fish | | Land use | arable land: 0%
permanent crops: 0%
other: 100% (2005) | | Irrigated land | NA | | Natural hazards | periodic droughts | | Environment current issues | limited natural fresh water resources, roof storage tanks collect rainwater, but mostly dependent on a single, aging desalination plant; intensive phosphate mining during the past 90 years - mainly by a UK, Australia, and NZ consortium - has left the central 90% of Nauru a wasteland and threatens limited remaining land resources | | Environment international agreements | party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements | | Geography note | 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; only 53 km south of Equator | |
People - Nauru: | Government - Nauru: | Economy - Nauru: | Communications - Nauru: | Transportation - Nauru: | Military - Nauru: |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |