Each village sends an assemblyman to the Parliament of Niue. In , Niue became the first country in the world to provide state-funded wireless internet to all inhabitants. A leader in green growth, Niue is also transitioning to solar power, with help from the European Union. On the other hand, Niue currently deals with one of the highest rates of greenhouse gas production per capita in the world second only to Kuwait and Brunei.
In , Niue started providing phone landlines to all of its inhabitants. In , Niue became the first country in the world where laptops are provided to all school students. This: NA. Where the people live in Niue? Here: population distributed around the peripheral coastal areas of the island. The major urban areas of Niue are: Alofi capital 1, The capital of Niue is Alofi and the government type self-governing parliamentary democracy Fouo Ekepule in free association with New Zealand.
Let's take a look at the administrative divisions - none; note - there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 14 villages at the second orde. Regarding the economy of Niue, important industrial products are handicrafts, food processing. Important agricultural products are coconuts, passion fruit, honey, limes, taro, yams, cassava manioc, tapioca , sweet potatoes; pigs, poultry, beef cattle. The most important export commodities are canned coconut cream, copra, honey, vanilla, passion fruit products, pawpaws, root crops, limes, footballs, stamps, handicrafts and the most important export partners are unknown.
The most important import commodities are food, live animals, manufactured goods, machinery, fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs and the most important import partners are unknown. How rich is Niue and how rich are people in this country?
This view, looking south from Tuapa N of Alofi , shows the typical shape of Niue's shoreline. From the sloping Alofi Terrace on left, ridges run into the sea, alternated by steep valleys.
Both end in a platform that extends further out into sea before it rises into a knee-high ridge, the outer reef. From there it drops down to m, where it descends more gradually. In their reports, geologists speak of wave-cut platforms, but we disagree.
These platforms were formed in recent times, mainly by the growth of coralline algae, with here and there a true coral of the types able to suffer fresh water immersion and exposure to air Porites and Acropora species. The flats are entirely flat and horizontal as low tide is the decisive limitation for growth. Underneath one finds extensive cave systems. The wave-cut notch is caused by wave erosion but where sea life persists, there exists a ledge or heel, the erosion of which is slowed down considerably by encrusting marine life.
Soil Soil is the precious substance that allows plants to grow, and grazing on them, the animals. Normally soil is formed from hard rock such as basalt, granite and volcanic debris.
These rocks were formed under high temperatures and pressure, and they very slowly decompose weathering in atmospheric pressure, particularly under the influence of moisture and acids. Plants retain moisture while providing for acids from their decomposing tissues leaves, stems, roots.
So the development of soils goes hand in hand with the flora growing on and in it. With it develops the soil fauna, often unique to a particular location. But how does this happen in limestone? Limestone is dissolved by the small amount of carbondioxide that dissolves in water. The air around us contains very small concentrations of carbondioxide, only 40 molecules for every million.
Those molecules that dissolve into water, exist in equilibrium balance with those outside, such that the concentration of the acid it forms, is indeed very low.
But this small amount attacks limestone rock fiercely, dissolving it into the water. In this manner the other elements in the rock are freed up, enabling the formation of soil where plants and soil biota worms, bacteria, fungi exist. Where the infused water with calcium in it dries up, such as on dripstone formations, the limestone is again laid down layer by layer, in a very hard form.
Where algae are present due to available light, such dripstones may assume wonderful palettes of colour, such as in the Avaiki cave. It is rich in coral 'shrubs' but notice also the amount of empty space inbetween, covered by coralline algae pink paint , which grows over old corals, creating the substrate for new ones. Gradual die-back and recolonisation by coralline algae appears to be normal. In scraping nutricious algae from the rock, they unintentionally also scrape off some rock, which becomes sand after passing their guts.
This photo was taken with a 28mm lens, looking down some 10 metres. Geologists have distinguished three kinds of limestone: reef rock, beach conglomerate and cemented or loose coral sand. The most striking character of the reef rock is its low content of macroscopic visible coral fragments, which are entirely absent from some exposures. This indicates that these reefs were built by coralline algae rather than coral. The middle of the island was once the atoll's lagoon, and it is still mainly flat today.
The surface rocks of the basin are all calcarenites and commonly contain mollusc shells. On the outer side, reef rock is exposed in the steep bluffs down to the younger Alofi Terrace. It consists of fine to coarse, cemented, unbedded sand containing rare coral fragment, most being found in the south.
The rock on the margins and the highest remnants was carefully examined across eight sections and was found to be reef rock similar to that on the outer slopes. No beach conglomerate or cemented beach sand was seen. The photo shows typical limestone formations at Alofi on the hurricane side of the island.
The southern coast is attacked by the full force of the prevailing winds, and the effect of constant spray has produced an entirely different landscape from that in the more sheltered coastal areas. This slope is bare of vegetation and is exceedingly rough, being a karrenfeld of crevices and razor-sharp pinnacles. Blowholes add beauty to this desolate coastline. The other introductions are in English.
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