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Licensing the .tv internet domain has provided a meaningful share of Tuvalu's national revenue.
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Tuvalu · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Tuvalu ↗
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Phosphate mining briefly made Nauru extraordinarily wealthy before the deposits ran out in the 1990s.
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Nauru · Oceania & the Pacific
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Palau restricted reef-toxic sunscreen ingredients in 2020 to protect its coral, one of the first nations to do so.
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Palau · Oceania & the Pacific
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With over 800 living languages, Papua New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse country on Earth.
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Papua New Guinea · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Demographics of Papua New Guinea ↗
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Navigators read ocean swells using stick charts, memorising wave patterns rather than carrying the charts to sea.
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Marshall Islands · Oceania & the Pacific
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Wayfinders crossed thousands of kilometres of open Pacific reading stars, swell direction, cloud shapes and bird flight.
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Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
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The central peaks are the remains of a volcano slowly subsiding inside its own coral ring.
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Bora Bora, French Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
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Volcanic basalt ground down by waves gives many Tahitian beaches their dark colour.
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Tahiti, French Polynesia · Oceania & the Pacific
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A naturally heart-shaped clearing in the mangroves of Voh became famous through aerial photography.
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New Caledonia · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): List of birds of New Caledonia ↗
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The Pacific covers about a third of the planet's surface and contains roughly half of its free water.
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Pacific Ocean · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Pacific Ocean Park ↗
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Challenger Deep reaches about 10,900 metres, more than two kilometres deeper than Everest is high.
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Mariana Trench · Oceania & the Pacific
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The nearest humans to Point Nemo are often astronauts on the space station passing overhead.
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Point Nemo, Pacific · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): Gina Nemo ↗
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Taumata whakatangihanga koauau and its full 85-letter form is the longest official place name in an English-speaking country.
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Hawke's Bay, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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