Nauru
Nauru likely gets its name from the Nauruan word Anaoero, which means "I go to the beach."
Introduction:
Nauru's historic beginnings are similar to all of the South Pacific beginnings, but Nauru sits in the middle of the Melanesian, Polynesian, and Micronesian people, giving them aspects of all of these cultures. Like these people, the early Nauruan settlers survived off the lands and their lifestyle was focused on the foods from the land and seas. While this remains true to some degree today, the culture and lifestyle in Nauru have vastly changed in recent years.
As settlers made their way to the South Pacific, nearly all immigrating waves are believed to have passed through Nauru and intermarried the local people. The people today maintain aspects of all these ethnicities and their languages are present in Nauru, however the similarities are most striking when compared to Micronesia both ethnically and linguistically. This was the root of their culture and remains to today.