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- <title>
- Nauru: Travel
- </title>
- <article>
- <hdr>
- Background Notes: Nauru
- Travel
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Customs: Visas are required for all visitors except transit
- passengers and may be obtained from the honorary consul at the
- following address: Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Nauru,
- Davies Pacific Center, 841 Bishop St., Suite 506, Honolulu, HI
- 96813 (tel. 808-523-7821).
- </p>
- <p> Health: No inoculations are required unless the traveler
- arrives from an infected area.
- </p>
- <p> Telecommunications: An earth satellite station provides
- 24-hour telephone, telegraph, and telex service worldwide.
- Nauru is 17 standard time zones ahead of eastern standard time.
- </p>
- <p> Transportation: The international airport is located in the
- Yaren District. The only flights to Nauru are with Air Nauru,
- which operates jet flights from Australia, New Zealand, Guam,
- the Solomon Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia,
- Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, the
- Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Kiribati, Fiji, and Palau. Taxis and
- rental cars are available, and bus service runs throughout the
- island.
- </p>
- <p>Source: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs,
- June 1988.
- </p>
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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