The Pleasant Island and its ancient roots
The phosphate gold rush and unimaginable wealth
The environmental cost and a moonscape interior
Modern Nauru and its curious quirks
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Master of The wild island of missing millions
schopenhauer Nauru achieved independence and took control of its valuable phosphate wealth.
schopenhauer Nauru Phosphate Wealth
We mined our island's white phosphate into gold, and built a fifty-two-story tower in Melbourne.
schopenhauer President Hammer DeRoburt holds the historic 21 million dollar buyout agreement for Nauru.
schopenhauer A Renaissance fresco shows classical figures sharing the resources of Nauru.
schopenhauer Solve trivia puzzles to discover how Nauru became a tax-free island.
Phosphate wealth: In the 1970s, Nauru's per capita income was second only to Saudi Arabia, allowing citizens to buy sports cars despite having only one paved road.
A salt or ester of phosphoric acid, commonly used in agricultural fertilizers and industrial chemicals. Geologist Albert Ellis discovered Nauru's massive deposits, which eventually made the small island nation phenomenally wealthy.
Which of these countries was NOT part of the joint trustee mandate that administered Nauru?
In which year did Nauru officially gain its independence from joint colonial trusteeship?
During which decade did Nauru's phosphate boom make it the second-richest nation per capita?
What major civic duty did the Nauruan government completely abolish during its wealthy golden era?
What organic source formed Nauru's massive, high-grade phosphate deposits over millions of years?
Which European empire first annexed Nauru in 1888, ending a ten-year tribal war?
What was the name of the multi-billion dollar trust fund established to hold Nauru's phosphate wealth?