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Some stamps ~ a collateral collection.
This is my entire collection of Nauru.
140 stamps collected over 7 years. This collection happened whilst I was collecting other stamps. From phossick boxes, trades and odd issues in albums. Scanned and thrown in the back of a stock book, they are now forming a more composite "look" I havn't had the time to name them for my database. 140 with approx another 400 to go till cut off of 1993 I may start looking at the odd ones at auction I scan and keep the earlies (eg the freighter "Century") to id perfs and papers some time later when I have the time. A whopping 1.5Mb scan enjoy if you like Oceanica http://www.cijoint.fr/cjlink.php?fil...cijkVCO0Jf.jpg |
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Some stamps ~ a collateral collection.
rodney wrote:
This is my entire collection of Nauru. 140 stamps collected over 7 years. Nauru has a very interesting modern history. It's the smallest independent republic in the world. Once rich in phosphate deposits, the residents collected royalty payments from the phosphate mining companies that were conducting mining operations on the island. For a time, Nauruans had one of the highest per capita incomes in the entire world. Eventually the mining companies dug up almost all the phosphate, said "thanks very much" and went back home, leaving a stripped island with no other resources. The island's national bank is insolvent, there are virtually no assets and there is 90% unemployment. They tried becoming a money laundering centre, but that didn't work out so well, so then they hosted an Australian detention centre to hold asylum seekers offshore, but the Aussies closed that. What a mess, not exactly a Pacific island paradise. Ryan |
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Some stamps ~ a collateral collection.
"Ryan Davenport" wrote in message
... Nauru has a very interesting modern history. It's the smallest independent republic in the world. Once rich in phosphate deposits, the residents collected royalty payments from the phosphate mining companies that were conducting mining operations on the island. For a time, Nauruans had one of the highest per capita incomes in the entire world. Eventually the mining companies dug up almost all the phosphate, said "thanks very much" and went back home, leaving a stripped island with no other resources. The island's national bank is insolvent, there are virtually no assets and there is 90% unemployment. They tried becoming a money laundering centre, but that didn't work out so well, so then they hosted an Australian detention centre to hold asylum seekers offshore, but the Aussies closed that. What a mess, not exactly a Pacific island paradise. The phosphate revenues apparently served to something. "Literacy on the island is 96%, education is compulsory for children from 6 to 15 years old (school years 1-10), and two non-compulsory years are taught (years 11 and 12).[42] There is a campus of the University of the South Pacific on the island; before the campus was built, students traveled to Australia for their university education." Not bad for a population under 10,000. The same source as above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru -- Victor Manta ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spanish North Africa: http://www.sna-on.postalstamps.biz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Some stamps ~ a collateral collection.
Yes indeed, Ryan. It seems a failure of modern democracy, and I am not sure its a problem of the politician or the people. (or the press) Western Australia is suffering similarly, we are exporting millions of tons of Iron ore, and I don't see a great deal done with the receipts. Perth is parched, whilst north of us oceans of fresh water fall into the sea. It is May and we still have had no rain. So what do we do? build a desalination plant. The last guy here of any note, built a pipeline to the goldfields that has lasted a century, he was so lambasted, he ended up committing suicide. "Ryan Davenport" wrote in message ... rodney wrote: This is my entire collection of Nauru. 140 stamps collected over 7 years. Nauru has a very interesting modern history. It's the smallest independent republic in the world. Once rich in phosphate deposits, the residents collected royalty payments from the phosphate mining companies that were conducting mining operations on the island. For a time, Nauruans had one of the highest per capita incomes in the entire world. Eventually the mining companies dug up almost all the phosphate, said "thanks very much" and went back home, leaving a stripped island with no other resources. The island's national bank is insolvent, there are virtually no assets and there is 90% unemployment. They tried becoming a money laundering centre, but that didn't work out so well, so then they hosted an Australian detention centre to hold asylum seekers offshore, but the Aussies closed that. What a mess, not exactly a Pacific island paradise. Ryan |
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