Australian immigration detention facilities
Australian immigration detention facilities comprise a number of different facilities throughout Australia, including the Australian territory of Christmas Island. Such facilities also exist in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, namely the Nauru Regional Processing Centre and the Manus Regional Processing Centre.
Barriers surrounding the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre in Burlong, Western Australia.
The Wickham Point Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin
Northern IDC, Darwin, 2010
Manus Island regional processing facility (Image by DIAC)
Nauru, officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Micronesia, part of Oceania in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba of Kiribati, about 300 km (190 mi) to the east.
Photo of a Nauruan warrior during the Nauruan Civil War around 1880
U.S. Army Air Forces bombing the Japanese airstrip on Nauru, 1943.
Aerial view of Nauru
Parliament of Nauru