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