Phosphate mining, Nauru, 1919

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Phosphate mining, Nauru, 1919

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State Library of New South Wales

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Throughout the twentieth century Nauru was one of four small Pacific islands that supplied almost all the phosphate used for fertiliser in Australia and New Zealand. Once mining exhausted the resource, the island was left as a moonscape of pits among coral pinnacles. Documentary filmmaker and writer Maslyn Williams collected this photo of phosph...

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State Library of NSW

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/53598624278

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Yablonka,

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phosphate / Mining / Nauru / Colonialism / Pacific / Pasifika / guano / Australia / New Zealand / Britain

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