| Climate Nauru :
| tropical with a monsoonal pattern; rainy season (November to February)
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| Terrain Nauru :
| sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs with phosphate plateau in center
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| Elevation extremes lowest Nauru :
| Pacific Ocean 0 m
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| Elevation extremes highest Nauru :
| unnamed location along plateau rim 61 m
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| Natural resources Nauru :
| phosphates, fish
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| Land use arableland Nauru :
| 0%
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| Irrigated land Nauru :
| NA sq km
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| Natural hazards Nauru :
| periodic droughts
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| Environment current issues Nauru :
| limited natural fresh water resources, roof storage tanks collect rainwater, but mostly dependent on a single, aging desalination plant; intensive phosphate mining during the past 90 years - mainly by a UK, Australia, and NZ consortium - has left the central 90% of Nauru a wasteland and threatens limited remaining land resources
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| Geography note Nauru :
| Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia; only 53 km south of Equator
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