December 27, 1940 - a ship flying Soviet colors approached Nauru. But it was a trap. Germany’s hidden raider, the Komet, opened fire, devastating the island’s vital phosphate operations. It was the ...

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 ...

Anna Neistat says the levels of mental trauma she saw on Nauru were higher than war zones she'd been in like Syria and Afghanistan. 'In a war, there is a reason for it. People are much better ...

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 ...