1798 - British navigator Captain John Fearn, sailing past Nauru from New Zealand to the China Seas, names it Pleasant Island. 1878-88 - Nauruan Civil War: between forces loyal to incumbent King ...

IT SITS, a tiny eight-square-mile speck, way out in the vast and lonely reaches of the Pacific, halfway between Hawaii and Australia. In 1798 a passing British captain, the first westerner to see ...

Australia's controversial detention centre on Nauru is empty ... of female genital mutilation from Somalia, Maria escaped civil war before making a weeks-long journey by plane, and then boat ...

Nauru is 4,500 km from Australia, with infrequent air links. It was the scene of fighting between the United States and Japan in World War Two. The unexploded bomb was discovered by construction ...