The Wandering Scot
An occasional travel journal
Nauru
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| The entire Nation of Nauru
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My Goodworks Hotel room
Built using pieces of recycled shipping containers
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| Nauru Parliament
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Nauru: Naoero Museum
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| Naoero Museum
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| Example outrigger canoe
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| Traditional costime (remake 2020)
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| Photo of coconut fiber armor
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Nauru: Command Ridge
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| View from Command Ridge
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Starlink Community Gateway on Command Ridge
Providing a high speed alternative to the ocean cables
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Command Ridge: Repurposed WWII bunkers (??)
The ridge has been taken over by telcos.
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Nauru: WWII Japanese Prison
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| Japanese WWII Prison Gate
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| WWII Prison Cell
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| WWII Prison Cell
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| Natural (?) limestone formations, near WWII prison
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| Limestone spire, near WWII prison
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Nauru: Coastal WWII Bunkers
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| Coastal WWII Japanese Bunker #1
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| Coastal WWII Japanese Bunker #1
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| Coastal WWII Japanese Bunker #2
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| View to Pacific
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Nauru: Japanese WWII Twin Guns
A pair of double-barrelled 127mm guns, near one another.
Nauru: Japanese WWII 150 mm Guns
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Japanese 150 mm Gun #1
Near Ijuw
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| Japanese 150 mm Gun #1
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| Japanese 150 mm Gun #1
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Japanese 150 mm Gun #2
Above airport
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| Japanese 150 mm Gun #2
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Nauru: Dog Bite
Unfortunately I had an encounter with an aggressive guard dog coming back from 150 mm Gun #2, leading to a quick RON Hospital visit.
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Aggressive dog
Defending its home and family
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| Aggressive dog
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| The Bite
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Republic of Nauru Hospital
I got a Tetanus booster and a bunch of antibiotics and was assured there was no risk of rabies.
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Nauru: Phosphate Mining
The phosphate mines are busy.
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| Phosphate loading cantilever
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Around Nauru
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| Maqua Cave entrance
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| WWII "Hospital Cave"
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| WWII "Hospital Cave"
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| Limestone (or coral?) pinnacles
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Nauru: Limestone Landscape
Much of the center of Nauru is covered in rough rocky limestone. Most of this is due to the phosphate mining, but
there are also some natural limestone spikes in some places too. (See near the WWII Prison, above.)
Tarawa, Republic of Kiribati
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| Kiribati Parliament
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| Entry to Kiribati Parliament complex
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| View into lagoon
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| View into Pacific
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Island ring road
With many trees & omnipresent shipping containers
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| One of the many local pigs
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| Part of "Desalination Plant Project"
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Tarawa WWII Sights
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| Battle of Tarawa monument
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| Japanese WWII coastal gun
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| New Zealand - America friendship plaque
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| WWII detrius
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| Japanese gun emplacement
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| Green Beach: Sadly polluted
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| Monument to 22 executed Coast-Watchers
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| Remnants of a double-barrelled gun
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| Old command bunker (?)
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| Large coastal gun
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| Large coastal gun
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| Japanese steel bunker
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| Random WWII detrius
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Funafuti, Tuvalu
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| View inside Funafuti Atoll
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| View inside Funafuti Atoll
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| Site of 1897 scientific drilling to investigate origin of atolls
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| Government HQ
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| Fētu'ao Lima Church
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| Funafuti Town Hall
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| Rainswept church
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| Church bell: an old oxygen tank
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| View out into the Pacific
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Fiji
Fiji: Suva
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| Suva Carnegie Library
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| Colonial-era Mercury House
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| View to Government / Post Office / Parliament buildings
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| Suva Waterfront view
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Suva: Fiji Museum
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| Fiji Museum
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| Traditional drua (canoe) "Ratu Finau" (1914)
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| 19th c shell currency (giant clam)
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| Rudder from HMS Bounty (!)
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| Mace / club
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Traditional breatplates, 19th c.
Whale ivory + bibre
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Fiji: "Tour to Cannibal Cave With Lunch"
A tourist trip from Nadi to the scenic Naihehe Cave, in Sigatoka Valley.
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| The road up
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| Our driver with Kava gift for Priest
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My two fellow travellers
AKA the two other members of my "tribe".
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Priest & family
He blesses and approves out visit
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| Scrambly path down to cave entrance
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| A low, watery, entrance
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| Our guide leads the way
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An unexpected tiny flower
Sprouting deep in the cave.
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| The so-called "Cannibal Oven"
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| Scotsman, exiting.
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Pacific, Part 1