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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island dependency of New Zealand in the south-central Pacific Ocean east of Tonga. Inhabited largely by native Polynesians, it was annexed by Britain in 1900 and made part of New Zealand a year later, becoming internally self-governing in 1974. Alofi is the capital.
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- proper noun Country in Oceania. Official name: Republic of Niue.
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Examples
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The vegetation in Niue is very lush – which we should have expected since part of the island is a rain forest.
The benefits of a managed spectrum « Baby is 60 – Tim Panton on voice and computers 2010
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We were now at the halfway point of our stay 2 week in Niue, most of our equipment had arrived, so it was time to set up OpenBTS and create the trial 900Mhz GSM service for the people of the island of Niue.
The benefits of a managed spectrum « Baby is 60 – Tim Panton on voice and computers 2010
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Niue is the biggest uplifted coral land mass on earth, with a population around 2000 but quite a bit of yacht traffic!
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The only way to get to Niue is on the weekly flight from Auckland – we came on the plane last weekend, unfortunately our equipment didn’t.
The island phone system adventure… « Baby is 60 – Tim Panton on voice and computers 2010
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Kerr: The deadline we have set ourselves is Niue, which is in August.
Transcript - Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs - The Hon Duncan Kerr MP 2008
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Cook called Niue (pronounced new-ay) Savage Island because the natives stained their mouths red with a local plant; Horwitz finds a boring, puritanical, Christianized culture which makes money on switching 900-number sex-chat calls and undercutting the Bahamas and the Caymans on the price of registering offshore businesses.
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But we did mention just a few minutes ago in case you missed that that a little blip had been indicated near Niue, which is an island just to the east of Fiji.
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Savage Island (former name Niue 19 02 S 169 52 W for Niue)
The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Savage Island (former name Niue 19 02 S 169 52 W for Niue)
The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Possibly even more significant than administrative responsibility, another special relationship developed -- immigration to New Zealand from the 1960s onwards in search of education, employment -- and even survival, where island resources could not support growing populations (such as Niue).
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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