Located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, Nauru is 800 miles ... For decades, the island's economy was heavily reliant on phosphate mining, which began in 1907, but the phosphate reserves were ...

Nauru, a picturesque island in Micronesia located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, was once one of ... Nauru took control ...

But thousands of miles away in the Pacific Ocean lies a tiny island that was once considered ... Its brief period of extraordinary wealth came from phosphate mining, with huge deposits discovered ...

Beginning in 1900 and ending 80 years later, phosphate rock mining stripped away ... In a new book on the island’s calamitous past, Consuming Ocean Island, Teaiwa pays a tribute to her ...

Nauru is a sponsoring state for Nauru Ocean Resources ... referring to the phosphate mining that made the island of Nauru briefly rich. The government squandered the money on an airline, a ...

Polymetallic sea nodules collected from a deep-sea mining expedition in the Indian Ocean ... Under German rule, phosphate was discovered and mined on the island at the beginning of the 20th ...

If mining goes ahead, irreversible environmental harm, risks to ocean ... of the island of Nauru highlights the dangers of resource depletion and mismanagement: decades of intensive phosphate ...

Citizenship of Nauru, an island nation spanning just 8 square miles in the southwest Pacific Ocean, can be yours ... Nauru was strip mined for phosphate from the early 1900s.

The remote Australian territory of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean is 2,600km away from ... the island’s economically significant phosphate mine, which has a lease expiring in 2034.

The Christmas Island Dollar was the official currency of Christmas Island, which is a small Australian island located in the Indian Ocean ... is known for its phosphate mines.