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Nauru Airlines

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{{Short description|Flag carrier of Nauru}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox airline
| airline = Nauru Airlines
| logo = Nauru Airlines logo 2023.jpg
| logo_size =
| IATA = ON
| ICAO = RON
| callsign = AIR NAURU
| founded = {{start date and age|1969|09|17|df=yes}}<br />{{small|(as ''Air Nauru'')}}
| commenced = {{start date and age|1970|02|14|df=yes}}
| headquarters = [[Nauru International Airport]]<br />[[Yaren District]], [[Nauru]]
| key_people = Ingo Eoe ([[Chief Executive Officer|CEO]])
| fleet_size = 7
| destinations = 10
| website = {{URL|www.nauruair.com}}
| image = 20230805 VH-XNU at SYD 01.jpg
| aoc =
| hubs = [[Nauru International Airport]]
| focus_cities =
| frequent_flyer =
| parent =
| num_employees =
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[[File:Fokker 28 C2-RN1 Melbourne 301073-1-.jpg|thumb|right|An Air Nauru [[Fokker F28 Fellowship]] at [[Melbourne Airport]], Australia (1973)]]
'''Nauru Air Corporation''', trading as '''Nauru Airlines''' (formerly trading as '''Our Airline''' and '''Air Nauru'''), is the [[flag carrier]] of the Republic of [[Nauru]]. It operates scheduled international services to other Pacific islands and Australia. Its main base is [[Nauru International Airport]].<ref name="FI">{{cite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= [[Flight International]] | page= 60 | date= 2007-04-10}}</ref> Its head office is on the premises of [[Nauru International Airport]], [[Yaren District]] and its operations office is in [[Brisbane]] in the Australian state of Queensland.<ref>[http://www.ourairline.com.au/contactus.aspx "Contact Us"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110218143447/http://www.ourairline.com.au/contactus.aspx |date=18 February 2011 }}. Our Airline. Retrieved on 16 January 2011. "Head Office Nauru International Airport PO Box 40 Republic of Nauru" "Operations Office Level 3, 99 Creek Street Brisbane QLD 4000"</ref> In August 2014, the airline changed its name from Our Airline to Nauru Airlines.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fijione.tv/naurus-airline-rebrands-as-nauru-airlines/ |title=Nauru's airline rebrands as Nauru Airlines | Fiji One |website=fijione.tv |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717183455/http://fijione.tv/naurus-airline-rebrands-as-nauru-airlines/ |archive-date=17 July 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Air Nauru Boeing 737-200 Proctor-1.jpg|thumb|[[Boeing 737|737-200]] 1985]]
== History ==
[[File:Air Nauru logo.png|thumb|left|Former Air Nauru logo]]
[[File:Air Nauru Boeing 737-400 Hutchison.jpg|thumb|right|An Air Nauru [[Boeing 737 Classic|Boeing 737-400]] at [[Sydney Airport]], Australia (2003)]]
Nauru Airlines was established as Air Nauru on 17 September 1969,<ref>Aero - Sammelwerk der Luftfahrt (Aviation Magazine, Germany), issue: 192, 1987</ref> and started operations on 14 February 1970.<ref name="Skwawk">[http://www.adastron.com/squawkid/squawk-1.htm A brief flying history of Brisbane Airport] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024233758/http://www.adastron.com/squawkid/squawk-1.htm |date=24 October 2007 }} retrieved 2007-09-22.</ref><ref>[http://www.adastron.com/squawkid/h1vhbiz.htm Image of VH-BIZ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605122556/http://www.adastron.com/squawkid/h1vhbiz.htm |date=5 June 2007 }} retrieved 2007-09-22.</ref> Regular scheduled services commenced after the delivery in January 1972 of the airline's first [[Fokker F28 Fellowship]] twin jet,<ref name="Skwawk"/> which was followed by a second. A [[Boeing 737|Boeing 737-200C]] was added to the fleet in 1975{{cn|date=August 2025}} and a [[Boeing 727|Boeing 727-100]] entered service on 16 June 1976.<ref>[http://www.aussieairliners.org/b-727/vh-rmt/vhrmt.html History of Boeing 727-77QC c/n 20370] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002023555/http://www.aussieairliners.org/b-727/vh-rmt/vhrmt.html |date=2 October 2011 }} retrieved 2007-09-22.</ref> Later in the 1970s, the two Fellowships were sold and more Boeings were added to the fleet.

By 1983 the fleet included seven aircraft: two Boeing 727-100s and five Boeing 737-200s;<ref>''Australian Aviation'' magazine 1984 Major Airline Directory. Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd. ISSN 0813-0876.</ref> since the entire population of Nauru at this time was about 8,000,<ref>Population number derived from figures mentioned on Page 14 of [http://www.spc.int/coastfish/Sections/Community/english/publications/nauru.pdf this report] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927053758/http://www.spc.int/coastfish/Sections/Community/english/publications/nauru.pdf |date=27 September 2011 }} retrieved 2007-09-22.</ref> the airline was in the position of having seating capacity equal to 10% of the Nauruan population. The airline had a bad reputation for cancelling flights at the whim of its government owners, including using the Boeing 727s for low-level searches for Nauruan fisherman lost at sea while relatives on board were served alcohol by the flight attendants.<ref name="Mic">"Micronesian Carriers to Stage a Comeback?" ''Australian Aviation'' magazine, No. 127, April 1997, p60-61. Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd. ISSN 0813-0876.</ref> From this high point (at least in terms of fleet numbers) the airline gradually contracted in size, leasing some aircraft and selling others. In 1988, the fleet consisted of three Boeing 737-200s with the one remaining 727-100 leased out to [[Trans Australia Airlines]]. At this time the airline was badly affected by an industrial dispute with its pilots and was operating without a set timetable, a situation that lasted for several months.<ref>''Australian Aviation'' magazine 1989 Major Airline Directory. Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd. ISSN 0813-0876.</ref>

In the early 1990s, an Air Nauru 737 was chartered to operate the Auckland-[[Niue]] route of [[Niue Airlines]], the latter company's only service.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

In 1993, two of the 737-200s were replaced by [[Boeing 737 Classic|Boeing 737-400s]], leaving the Boeing 737-200C to soldier on for a little while longer.<ref>''Australian Aviation'' magazine 1994 Major Airline Directory. Aerospace Publications Pty. Ltd. ISSN 0813-0876.</ref> The airline, by now operating only a single 737-400, was corporatised in July 1996 as the Nauru Air Corporation (NAC).<ref name="Mic" />

Mismanagement of the island's wealth and the resulting economic troubles caused the airline to lose large amounts of money, and on some occasions become insolvent. Its operations were also suspended for brief periods in the 1990s because of concerns raised by Australia over the airworthiness and safety record of its aircraft. Airline offices and equipment were also frequently repossessed by the Australian government for Nauru's repeated defaults on foreign loans. The airline became in dispute with the [[Export-Import Bank of the United States]] in 2002, and in December 2005 the [[High Court of Australia]] upheld an earlier decision to allow the bank to seize Air Nauru's only aircraft, leaving Nauru<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1533290.htm |title=Court ruling grounds Air Nauru |date=17 December 2005 |access-date=2006-05-24 |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060221132722/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1533290.htm |archive-date=21 February 2006}}</ref> and the island nation of [[Kiribati]]{{citation needed|date=September 2017}} without air services. The aircraft was [[search and seizure|seized]] by creditors at [[Melbourne Airport]] on 18 December 2005.<ref>[https://archive.today/20070728091913/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,17593161-2702,00.html Suit costs Nauru its air link] retrieved 2007-09-22. {{dead link|date=September 2017}}</ref> Following the acquisition of a replacement aircraft (a Boeing 737-300) in mid-2006, the airline was rebranded as Our Airline and relaunched on 14 October 2006.<ref name="FI" /> Our Airline was renamed Nauru Airlines on 1 August 2014.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

Nauru Airlines is now wholly owned by the state and had 65 employees in July 2012.<ref name="FI" />

== Destinations ==
[[File:Our Airline (VH-INU) Boeing 737-3Y0 at Sydney Airport.jpg|thumb|right|Nauru Airline [[Boeing 737-300]] taxiing at Sydney Airport, Australia. (2007)]]
Nauru Airlines serves the following destinations as of September 2025:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Airlines |first=Nauru |title=Destinations |url=https://www.nauruair.com/destinations |access-date=2023-01-01 |website=Nauru Airlines |language=en}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Country
! City
! Airport
|-
|{{AUS}}||[[Brisbane]]||[[Brisbane Airport]]
|-
|{{FSM}}||[[Pohnpei]]||[[Pohnpei International Airport]]
|-
|rowspan="2" |{{FJI}}||[[Nadi]]||[[Nadi International Airport]]
|-
|[[Suva]]||[[Nausori International Airport]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Nauru Airlines Adds Suva Service From late-August 2025 |url=https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/250822-onaug25suv |access-date=6 September 2025 |work=AeroRoutes |language=en-CA}}</ref>
|-
|rowspan="2" | {{KIR}}||[[Kiritimati]]||[[Cassidy International Airport]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Nauru Airlines / Air Kiribati begins regular Tarawa - Kiritimati service from Aug 2023 |url=https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230802-onikaug23cxi |publisher=AeroRoutes |date=2 August 2023 |accessdate=17 January 2024}}</ref>
|-
|[[Tarawa]]||[[Bonriki International Airport]]
|-
|{{MHL}}||[[Majuro]]||[[Marshall Islands International Airport]]
|-
|{{NRU}}||[[Yaren District|Yaren]]|| style="background:#ffe6bd;"|[[Nauru International Airport]] <sup>[Base]</sup>
|-
|{{PLW}}||[[Koror (city)|Koror]]||[[Roman Tmetuchl International Airport]]
|-
|{{PHL}}||[[Metro Clark|Clark]]||[[Clark International Airport]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Nauru Airlines Adds Palau – Clark Service in Sep 2025 |url=https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/250902-onsep25crk |access-date=6 September 2025 |work=AeroRoutes |language=en-CA}}</ref>
|}

===Historical destinations===

Air Nauru once had a remarkably comprehensive network in the Asia-Pacific, with services to:<ref name="airwaysmuseum.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/JL-Air%20Nauru%20story.htm |title=John Laming - A Merry Tale of Air Nauru |publisher=Airwaysmuseum.com |access-date=2013-08-06 |archive-date=23 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223213620/http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/JL-Air%20Nauru%20story.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{columns-list|colwidth=10em|
* [[Auckland]]
* [[Melbourne]]
* [[Sydney]]
* [[Hong Kong]]
* [[Kagoshima]]
* [[Taipei]]
* [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]]
* [[Manila]]
* [[Singapore]]
* [[Guam]]
* [[Saipan]]
* [[Koror]]
* [[Chuuk State|Chuuk]]
* [[Pohnpei]]
* [[Kosrae]]
* [[Majuro]]
* [[Tarawa]]
* [[Honolulu]]
* [[Honiara]]
* [[Port Vila]]
* [[Nouméa]]
* [[Apia]]
* [[Pago Pago]]
* [[Nadi]]
* [[Tonga]]
* [[Kanton Island]]
* [[Niue]]
* [[Rarotonga]]
}}
The average load factor throughout the network was only around 20%, with many flights carrying few or no passengers.<ref name="airwaysmuseum.com"/> The Nauru government subsidized the airline with profits from phosphate mining. Due to the phosphate reserves depleting in the early 1990s, along with the mismanagement of the island's mineral [[Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust|reserves]], the airline began to cease services to unprofitable destinations.{{citation needed|date = February 2016}}

=== Relaunch of services ===

Since relaunching services in 2006, the airline has repeatedly adjusted its route map. When the airline initially resumed services in 2006, it offered a twice-weekly service from Brisbane to Honiara, Nauru, Tarawa, and Majuro. These were quickly curtailed, with flights to Majuro eliminated. The Tarawa extension was suspended from July 2008 to November 2009 because, along with the high fuel prices of the time, operating the Tarawa flight was not profitable without a connecting destination.<ref name="RNZI_40540">{{cite news |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=40540 |title=Nauru's airline cooperates with Solomons as fuel price hikes bite |date=25 June 2008 |work=[[Radio New Zealand International]] |access-date=1 November 2011 |archive-date=7 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307214939/http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=40540 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Tarawa extension was suspended again in 2011 because of disputes, but it was resumed in early 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ourairline.com.au/MediaRelease001.htm |title= Our Airline - Media Release|website=www.ourairline.com.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017051011/http://www.ourairline.com.au/MediaRelease001.htm |archive-date=17 October 2009}}</ref> Meanwhile, Honiara service was suspended around the same time.{{citation needed|date = February 2016}}

Although it had been reported in early 2007 that Our Airline would begin services between Nauru and Fiji in the very near future,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=55931 |title=Air Nauru to serve Fiji route |date=26 January 2007 |access-date=2007-01-26 |work=[[Fiji Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927191746/http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=55931 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> the airline instead provided once weekly Tarawa to Nadi service on behalf of [[Air Kiribati]] beginning in November 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ourairline.com.au/MediaRelease002.htm |title= Our Airline - Media Release|website=www.ourairline.com.au |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017051040/http://www.ourairline.com.au/MediaRelease002.htm |archive-date=17 October 2009}}</ref> However, the service between Nauru and Fiji which began in 2010 ceased in December 2011 due to a dispute between the governments of Kiribati and Fiji.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ourairline.com.au/node/161 |title=Fiji is Back! |publisher=ourairline.com.au |date=2012-03-05 |access-date=2013-08-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630160636/http://www.ourairline.com.au/node/161 |archive-date=30 June 2012}}</ref> This was replaced with a bi-weekly direct flight between Nauru and [[Nadi]], in Fiji.{{citation needed|date = February 2016}}

As of December 2019, Nauru Airlines served four destinations from its base in Nauru: [[Brisbane]], [[Majuro]], [[Nadi]], and [[Tarawa]]. However, three of these destinations have since been discontinued and the airline currently only has limited service to Brisbane. Thus, the Nauru Airlines service between Brisbane and Nauru is now the only scheduled service of any airline to Nauru.

In May 2023, Nauru Airlines applied to the US Department of Transport for permission to fly scheduled cargo and passenger flights to Guam using B737 equipment. In 2017, the airline successfully obtained a five-year foreign carrier's permit allowing such flights but due to Covid-19 and other reasons, never used the permit. The filing also said the airline was in the final stages of securing a B737-800SF which will be registered as VH-8TG (msn 33003).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nauru Airlines eyes Guam, to add B737-800SF |url=https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/127616-nauru-airlines-eyes-guam-to-add-b737-800sf |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=ch-aviation |language=en}}</ref>

=== Airline partnerships ===
Nauru Airlines currently has [[Interlining|Interline]] partnerships with [[Air Kiribati]]<ref>https://www.nauruair.com#:~:text=Flights%20to%20Kiritimati%20(Christmas%20Island,%2C%20Majuro%2C%20Pohnpei%20and%20Koror.</ref> and Hahn Air.<ref>https://www.hahnair.com/en/carrier/on-h1</ref>

==Services provided to Norfolk Island==
[[File:Norfolk Air VH-NLK.jpg|thumb|right|Nauru Airlines [[Boeing 737 Classic|Boeing 737-300]] operating for [[Norfolk Air]] landing at Sydney Airport, Australia. (2010)]]
Norfolk Island's [[Norfolk Jet Express]] and [[Norfolk Air]] had chartered Nauru Airlines to fly services between [[Norfolk Island]] and Brisbane, [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]], Melbourne and Sydney. Norfolk Jet Express went out of business on 4 June 2005. A government operated airline, called Norfolk Air, was then established but with no aircraft of its own, Qantas operated the flights from 11 June 2005 using Air Nauru's Boeing 737-400.<ref>Air International, July 2005</ref> This arrangement ceased later that year, when the aircraft was seized due to Air Nauru's own financial problems. Other airlines filled the gap for Norfolk Air, but Air Nauru again started providing aircraft for Norfolk Air flights in April 2009. The Norfolk government closed down Norfolk Air in March 2012, with a new agreement that [[Air New Zealand]] would take over the Norfolk Island flights, using its own aircraft.

==Fleet==
{{As of|2025|8}}, Nauru Airlines operates the following aircraft:<ref>{{cite journal |title=Global Airline Guide 2025 - Nauru Airlines |journal=Airliner World |date=September 2025 |page=51}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+ Nauru Airlines fleet
|-
! rowspan="2" | Aircraft
|-
!style="width:25px;"| In service
!style="width:25px;"| Orders
!style="width:25px;"| <abbr title="Business Class">C</abbr>
!style="width:25px;"| <abbr title="Economy Class">Y</abbr>
!style="width:25px;"| Total
!style="width:300px;"| Notes
|-
|[[Boeing 737-300]]
|2
|—
|12
|108
|120
|
|-
|[[Boeing 737 Classic|Boeing 737-300SF]]
|2
|—
|colspan=3|Freighter
|
|-
|[[Boeing 737-700]]
|1
|—
|8
|108
|116
|
|-
|[[Boeing 737-800]]
|1
|—
|10
|168
|178
|
|-
|[[Boeing 737-800#Boeing 737-800SF|Boeing 737-800SF]]
|1
|—
|colspan=3|Freighter
|
|-
!Total
! 7
! 0
! colspan="4" class="unsortable" |
|}

'''Previously operated jet aircraft:'''<ref>http://www.airliners.net {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614012958/http://www.airliners.net/ |date=14 June 2016 }}, Air Nauru aircraft (advanced search function)</ref>

* [[Boeing 727-100]]
* [[Boeing 737-200]]
* [[Boeing 737-400]]
* [[Dassault Falcon 20]]
* [[Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship]]

In March 2006, the government of the [[Republic of China]], reportedly as a reward for Nauru's [[diplomatic recognition]] of the ROC instead of the [[People's Republic of China]],<ref>[http://www.islandsbusiness.com/islands_business/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=5117/overideSkinName=issueArticle-full.tpl Taiwan Switch Keeps Air Nauru Flying] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070425162456/http://www.islandsbusiness.com/islands_business/index_dynamic/containerNameToReplace=MiddleMiddle/focusModuleID=5117/overideSkinName=issueArticle-full.tpl |date=25 April 2007 }} retrieved 2007-09-22.</ref> assisted Air Nauru with the purchase of a second-hand [[Boeing 737]], which was expected to be in operation by mid-2006, after several logistical delays. This purchase was put on hold in May 2006 due to [[OzJet]] and [[Fiji Airways|Air Pacific]] (now Fiji Airways) having started on the routes formerly operated by Air Nauru.<ref>{{cite news |publisher=[[Radio New Zealand]] |url=http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=24253 |access-date=2006-05-24 |date=23 May 2006 |title=Nauru shelves plans to buy a new plane after losing key air routes |archive-date=5 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070905084948/http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=24253 |url-status=live }}</ref> In October 2006 the new Boeing plane came into service. The plane was registered as VH-INU and named as 'Naoero'. In 2008, the Airline bought their second Boeing 737-300 adorned with a full Norfolk Air livery, remaining till now despite Norfolk Air's current state of closure. The plane was registered as VH-NLK. Later in March 2013, the Airline purchased a Boeing 737-300 from [[GECAS]]. The plane was painted in the 'Our Airline' livery in Melbourne, making its first visit to Brisbane Airport on 3 September 2013.<ref>[http://ybbn.blogspot.hk/2013/09/our-airline-b733-vh-pni.html Our Airline B733 VH-PNI] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113035911/http://ybbn.blogspot.hk/2013/09/our-airline-b733-vh-pni.html |date=13 November 2016 }} Retrieved 15 September 2013</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Nauru Airlines}}
{{Portal|Aviation}}
*{{Official website|http://nauruairlines.com.au/}}
*{{official website|https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ourairline.com.au}} via [[Wayback Machine]]

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[[Category:Government-owned companies of Oceania]]

Culture of Nauru

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{{Short description|none}} 
{{Use Australian English|date=February 2016}}
[[File:Island Ring Road - Nauru.jpg|thumb|300px|Island ring road in Nauru]]
The displacement of the traditional [[culture]] of [[Nauru]] by contemporary Western influences is evident on the island. Little remains from the old customs. The traditions of arts and crafts are nearly lost.

==Arts and crafts==
[[File:A Nauruan fisherman hauls in a catch, 1 June 2013. Photo- Matt Robertson - DFAT (12046391626).jpg|thumb|left|upright|A Nauruan fisherman hauls in a catch]]
The [[Nauruan people|inhabitants of Nauru]] wear the usual tropical clothes: short trousers and light shirts. Fishing still follows a traditional method: the island anglers wait in small light boats for fish to arrive. The custom of fishing by trained [[frigatebird]]s has been preserved.

Nauruan folk songs existed as of 1970,<ref>{{cite book |last= Viviani |first= Nancy |date= 1970 |title= Nauru: Phosphate and Political Progress |url= https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/114914/2/b11197110.pdf |location= [[Canberra]] |publisher= [[ANU Press]] |page= 158}}</ref> while ''Oh Bwio Eben Bwio'' is a noticeable folk song.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=4338 |title= Songs & Rhymes From Nauru |author= |website= Mama Lisa's World}}</ref>

Whilst the traditional culture rapidly gives way to the contemporary, as elsewhere in Micronesia, music and dance still rank among the most popular art forms. Rhythmic singing and traditional ''reigen''{{#tag:ref|Indirectly influenced by German colonialism, [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reigen reigen] in this cultural context is a German word that implies styles of circular-moving dances in Nauru's historical past, implying that historical Nauruan traditional dances tend to be informal.<ref>{{cite book |last= Fabricius |first= Wilhelm |author-link= |date= 1992 |title= Nauru: 1888-1900: An account in German and English based on official records of the Colonial Section of the German Foreign Office held by the Deutsches Zentralarchiv in Potsdam. |url= https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/132630/1/JPH_Nauru.pdf |location= [[Canberra]] |publisher= [[Australian National University]] |page= 271 |isbn= 978-0731513673 |quote= The Nauruan dances which I have seen are not notable for their wealth of distinct figures. They are accompanied by singing and consist in tripping to and fro, swaying the body, slapping the thighs and chest and making turns.}}</ref>|group=n}} are performed particularly at celebrations. At least, a historical form of a Nauruan dance called ''fish dance'' in English was record in a form of photographs.<ref>{{cite book |author= |date= 2014 |title= Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lOqmBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA159 |location= [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] |publisher= [[Cambridge Scholars Publishing]] |page= 159 |isbn= 978-1443871006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= Oates |first= John F. |date= 1999-10-19 |title= Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation Strategies are Failing in West Africa |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=x2GZH7mssNcC&pg=PR11 |location= [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] |publisher= [[University of California Press]] |page= XI |isbn= 978-0520222526}}</ref> Known contemporary dances are the frigate bird dance and the dogoropa.<ref>{{cite book |author= |date= 2017 |title= The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Australia and the Pacific Islands Vol.9 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HB03DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT450 |location= [[Milton Park]] |publisher= [[Taylor & Francis]] |page= 450 |isbn= 978-1351544320 |quote= At the Pacific Festival of Arts in 1985 and 1988, sixth-graders at the Nauru Primary School presented the frigate bird (''iti''), a Nauruan dance. The students practiced daily for two months. The boys clapped and sang while the girls danced, por-traying te birds' flight and perching.... In 1994, at the Children's Convention in Fukuoka, Japan, ten eleven-year-old boys and girls from Nauru performed the ''dogoropa'', a dance with sticks, which men and women from Nauru had performed at the Festival of Arts in 1980.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://2012expo.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/d-5-lets-meet-the-world-nauru/ |title= Let's Meet the World: Nauru |author= |date= 2012-08-07 |website= |publisher= Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea}}</ref>

Craftsmen make articles of clothing and fans of ''Kokosfasern'' and the sheets of the screw tree and use geometrical samples, which resemble those of the Indonesian culture. Also the wood of the ''kokospalme'' is used for the production of arts and crafts.{{cn|date=August 2023}}

==Language and education==
The language of Nauru, [[Nauruan language|Dorerin Naoero]], is a Micronesian language. English is understood and spoken widely.

Education is compulsory from 4 to 16, in all the schools on the island. The [[University of the South Pacific]] has a centre in Nauru located in the Aiwo District and offers pre-school teacher education, nutrition and disability studies and will offer the Community Workers Certificate. The campus offers Audio and video conferencing facilities, library and computer laboratory as well as internet and email access via USPNet are available for students. For secondary and university education, most Nauruans' children must go abroad. During its prosperous years these children were sent to Australia but now were sent to Fiji.

The official national holiday is the independence day on 31 January, but [[Angam Day]], 26 October, is considered as an additional national holiday.

The [[Nauruan language|Nauruan]] words of the national anthem were written by [[Margaret Hendrie]] and adopted in 1968 upon the [[Republic of Nauru]]'s independence.

==Sport==
[[File:Local game of volleyball, Nauru 2007. Photo- AusAID (10708297985).jpg|thumb|Local volleyball game in Nauru]]
The most popular in Nauru is [[Australian rules football]]. A 12-team senior league operates in the country, see [[Australian rules football in Nauru]] and it is a popular spectator sport. Nauru has competed internationally in Australian rules football at the [[Arafura Games]], [[Australian Football International Cup]] and [[Barassi International Youth Tournament]]. The [[Nauru (Australian rules football National Team)|national team]], the "Chiefs", ranked 8th in the International Cup in 2002 and [[gold medal]] at the [[Arafura Games]].

[[File:Australian Football 2008 International Cup.jpg|thumb|upright|Australian Rules Football match (2008)]]

[[Nauru's national basketball team]] made the headlines internationally at the [[Basketball at the 1969 South Pacific Games|1969 Pacific Games]] when it beat the [[Solomon Islands national basketball team|Solomon Islands]], which have almost 60 times of Nauru's population, and [[Fiji national basketball team|Fiji]], which has almost 100 times of Nauru's population.

Nauruans also play [[football (soccer)|soccer]], [[softball]], [[tennis]], [[sailing]], and swimming. [[Golf]] is accessible in [[Tourism in Nauru|Menen Hotel]].<ref>{{cite book |author= |date= 2013 |title= Nauru Business Law Handbook Volume 1: Strategic Information and Basic Laws |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=zkOuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 |publisher= International Business Publications, USA |page= 108 |isbn=978-1438770598}}</ref> There are only a few sport grounds in Nauru. The only stadium is in [[Yaren District|Yaren]], but it is obsolete and fails to meet international standards. A larger and more modern sports stadium is being built in [[Meneng District|Meneng]], however lack of money has caused the project to stall. The current stadia are:
* Aida Oval
* Denig Stadium in Denigomodu
* [[Linkbelt Oval]] in [[Aiwo District|Aiwo]]
* Menen Stadium in Meneng
* National Stadium in Yaren

A traditional 'sport' is catching birds ([[Black noddy|Black Noddy]]) when they return from foraging at sea to the island towards sunset. The men then stand on the beach ready to throw their lasso. The Nauruan [[lasso]] is supple rope with a weight at the end. When a bird comes over they throw their lasso up, it hits and or drapes itself over the bird, which then falls down and is seized and are roosted as pets.

[[Eakabarere]] is a traditional form of Nauruan wrestling. [[Powerlifting|Weightlifting]] is also one of the more traditional sports in Nauru.

==Radio==
The island features in the 1941 radio play ''[[Drift (radio play)|Drift]]''.
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==See also==
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* [[Nauruan cuisine]]
* [[Religion in Nauru]]

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