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Nauru Island

Nauru Island

The island of Nauru is only 8.2 square miles, but is home to over 10,000 people. It is located approximately 12,000 miles northwest of Papua, New Guinea, and a little less than that distance north of the Solomon Islands. It is 41 kilometers south of the equator.

The population of this tiny coral island boasts a 99% literacy rate. Almost all the people on the island speak English as a second language to Nauruan. Nauru's economy is based on fishing and phosphate mining, although the rich phosphate resources are predicted to be exhausted by the turn of the century.

Nauru is one of the smallest republics in the world. Its beautiful flag bears a twelve-pointed white star representing Nauru's 12 native tribes. The star is set below a golden line (the equator) on a field of blue (the ocean).

Nauru Flag

The ARM Program chose Nauru as the island to set up its Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) site because of its location on the eastern edge of the warm pool under La Nina conditions. Installation of the CART site began in September 1998.

To learn more about Nauru, its people, economy, and government, visit the following website address: www.automap.msn.com/am/pages/a/180.htm.

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