Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just 21 square kilometres.
Nauru boasted the highest per-capita income enjoyed by any sovereign state in the world during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
But now ....
The old phosphate fields

The phosphate fields

Digging out the phosphate

A view of digging out the phosphate

The coast

The coast with the phosphate

The giant cantielever loaders

At a golf course
