Nauru is a 13-mile island microstate in the Pacific with a population of just 10,000 people, formerly known as Pleasant Island.

Australia oversaw – and benefited from – the extraction of much of Nauru’s surface during phosphate mining. Mismanagement of the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust, established at independence ...

Getty Images Nauru is roughly about 3,000 km (1,800 miles ... The tiny Pacific island is just 21 sq km (8 sq miles) and covered with phosphate rocks. It was mined heavily and has few trees ...

Nauru is only 21 sq km (8 sq miles) and is known for its production of the chemical phosphate. Once known as 'Pleasant Island' by early European visitors, the landscape has been devastated by ...