NAURU
Nauru is situated in the South of the Equator in 700km on the
West islands Kiribati and in the Northeast of islands Salomon.
This coral island is one of the smallest states of the World with
a surface of 21,1 km ˛.
This unique, isolated island is surrounded by a platier discovered
to ebb tide and put around by a fertile coastal fringe from 100 to 200 m of
wide which forms with the neighborhoods of the Buada's small lagoon the only
agricultural zones. It is on this narrow coastal band which lives the population.
The inside of the island consists of small cliffs of coral which
rise bit by bit towards the central tray which peaks in 65 m. It is in this
place that is one of the most important deposits of phosphate of the World.
The exploitation of the phosphate lets appear a lunar and sterile landscape
made by pilaster of coral.
The climate of this island is tropical, the island of Nauru undergoes
the monsoon; the rainy season extends of November in February; the annual precipitation
being of the order of 1 500 mm. But this island meets three or four times by
century the grave aridities (150 mm / year).
The island of Nauru does not possess either stream, or source,
the water désalinisation results either from the streaming of roofs, or of a
factory of or it is imported by Australia or by New Zealand.
That is why the flora and the fauna are there very reduced, threatened
even as birds native of the island which have no more environment.
The country looks for
the international help for the rehabilitation of its earth.
