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An aerial image of Nauru in 2002 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program. Regenerated vegetation covers 63% of land that was mined. [3] Nauru is a raised coral atoll positioned in the Nauru Basin of the Pacific Ocean, on a part of the Pacific Plate that formed at a mid-oceanic ridge at 132 Ma.
Map of Nauru. Nauru is a 21 km 2 (8.1 sq mi), [4] oval-shaped island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, 55.95 km (34.77 mi) south of the Equator. [72] The island is surrounded by a fringing coral reef, which is exposed at low tide and dotted with pinnacles. [5]
An aerial image of Nauru in 2002. Anabare Bay is on the east side. Buada Lagoon is the darker region in the south west. [1]Nauru is positioned in the Nauru Basin of the Pacific Ocean, on a part of the Pacific Plate that formed at a mid oceanic ridge at 132 Ma. [2]
Nauru is a phosphate rock island, and its primary economic activity since 1907 has been the export of phosphate mined from the island. [2] With the exhaustion of phosphate reserves, its environment severely degraded by mining, and the trust established to manage the island's wealth significantly reduced in value, the government of Nauru has ...
English: Map of the island nation of the Republic of Nauru. English translation of map of Nauru made by en:User:Bobo_is_soft on January 15, 2007. Map modification, translation into French and vectorization of map by fr:Utilisateur:Kimdime69 at Image:Nauru-Hauptkarte-fr.svg Orignal map drawn by Tschubby at Image:Nauru-Hauptkarte.png
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