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The "cursed" fate of an island/ Once the richest country in the world, while now...

2024-08-26 23:29:09Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The "cursed" fate of an island/ Once the richest country in the world,
Nauru

At the time of independence in 1968, this was the richest country in the world per capita due to large deposits. However, the phosphate they mined dried up in the 1980s.

Nauru, an island nation in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, covers 21.2 km². The island has a coastline 30 kilometers long and due to intensive mining, more than 80 percent of its surface has been destroyed. According to the 2011 census, Nauru had a population of 10,084, who mostly lived on the coastal plain on the western and southern sides of the island. The official languages ​​are Nauruan and English, and there is no capital city.

As for the economy, in the early 2000s this country was mainly based on the granting of fishing licenses to foreign vessels and the exploitation of phosphate, but it also remained dependent on international aid. Nauru has five kilometers of industrial railway and 41 kilometers of roads.

Nauru became a UN Trust Territory in 1947, under the administration of Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. It gained autonomy in 1966 and independence in 1968. In the late 1990s, a severe economic crisis caused political instability in the country.

The Enjoy Travel portal writes that the island was once called the "Pleasant Island", but now it is one of the least visited places in the world.

Enjoy Travel writes that the island is visited by about 200 tourists every year.

The island is located 3000 kilometers off the northeast coast of Australia and is a 4.5 hour flight from Brisbane.

The exploitation of phosphates left the interior of the island almost completely barren. At the time of independence in 1968, Nauru was the richest country in the world per capita due to large deposits. However, phosphate dried up in the 1980s and the economy collapsed. Phosphate mining resumed in 2005 when officials found a secondary deposit, but that only lasted another ten years.

There were discussions about moving the entire population of Nauru to an island near Queensland, Australia. Experts believed that Nauru would become uninhabitable by the mid-1990s. Threatened by the impact of climate change and devastated by phosphate mining, scientists believed that the landscape was so damaged that investment in restoration would be too expensive. The Nauruans opposed this idea and decided to stay.

The "cursed" fate of an island/ Once the richest country in the world,

In conclusion, phosphate reserves once made this point in the Pacific one of the richest places on Earth. Today Nauru is devastated, barren and subject to its powerful neighbour, Australia. The latter has built camps for asylum seekers on the island, just as Italy is building them in Shengjin.


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