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    Nauru Travel Guide

    Nauru was once among the world's richest

    The people of Nauru were once among the world's richest. Nauru supplied Australia with fertiliser for almost a century after vast phosphate deposits were discovered in 1900. By 2005, in an abrupt reversal of fortune, Nauru was a nearly failed state with an uncertain future. Nauruans are doing it tough. Initially inhabited by Micronesian and Polynesian peoples, Nauru was annexed and designated a colony by Germany in the late 19th century, and after World War I became a mandate territory...