Transport in Nauru

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Transportation in Nauru includes pedestrian, bicycle, automobile, train, and airplane.

Air

Nauru has one airport, Nauru International Airport. Nauru Airlines, which flies to Brisbane, Australia; Majuro, Marshall Islands; Nadi, Fiji; and Tarawa, Kiribati, is the only airline to fly to the airport.[1] There are five aeroplanes in service.[2]

Rail

Main article: Rail transport in Nauru

Rail transport is used for moving phosphate from the island's interior to the cantilever jetties on the island's western coast, in Aiwo District. For this purpose, a 3,900 m long, 0.61 m narrow gauge railway was built by the Pacific Phosphate Company in 1907.

References

  1. ^ "Who we are - Nauru Airlines". Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Nauru Airlines on ch-aviation". ch-aviation. Retrieved 19 March 2018.


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