Soil properties that affect land use are described in this soil survey. Broad areas of soils are shown on the general soil map. The location of each soil is shown on the detailed soil maps. Each soil in the survey area is described. Information on specific uses is given for each soil.
A final draft version of a paper that analyses whether Poverty would be an issue for the Government. The main data used for this analysis was based on the 2006 Household Income and Expenditure survey.
This report was prepared by Nauru’s National Committee on Climate Change with the assistance of the Energy Unit of the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), and approved by the Government of the Republic of Nauru.
The second national communication to the UNFCCC. This report was prepared and published by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Environment
Resource contains raster files for a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and derived hillshade for Nauru.
The ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) Version 3 (ASTGTM) provides a global digital elevation model (DEM) of land areas on Earth at a spatial resolution of 1 arc second (approximately 30 meter horizontal posting at the equator).
This resource contains satellite imagery for Nauru. The imagery was collected on May 9, 2020.
More specially, this resource contains a raster file of RGB imagery at 10-meter resolution, using Level-2A products when available. Level-2A products include atmospheric correction and represent bottom of atmosphere reflectance values in the images. When Level-2A products were not available, Level-1C (top of atmosphere) products were used.
The image was mosaicked from the following individual Sentinel-2 scenes:
S2A_MSIL2A_20200509T232631_N0214_R044_T58MGE_20200510T011147
The report was developed for the purpose of the higher ground project to understand the impacts of sea level rise and the need to develop the higher ground in Nauru. The author of the report is NIWA.
A traditional sport called Ibbon Itsi is an annual competition that last about a week, where men try and catch as many frigate birds as possible. Tame frigate birds are used to lure other frigate birds.
Publication contains a fisheries-oriented discussion of macroeconomics, country information on specific topics (fisheries production, contribution to GDP, etc), a discussion of important topics across all countries, some important features of the benefits from fisheries that have emerged from this study, and recommendations on improving the measurement of fisheries benefits and assuring the continuity of those benefits.
The economic contribution of fisheries to the economies of Pacific Island nations.