e--products: coconuts, passion fruit, honey, limes,
taro, yams, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes; pigs, poultry, beef
cattle

Exports: $117,500 (f.o.b., 1989)

Exports--commodities: canned coconut cream, copra, honey, passion
fruit products, pawpaw, root crops, limes, footballs, stamps,
handicrafts

Exports--partners: NZ 89%, Fiji, Cook Islands, Australia

Imports: $4.1 million (c.i.f., 1989)

Imports--commodities: food, live animals, manufactured goods,
machinery, fuels, lubricants, chemicals, drugs

Imports--partners: NZ 59%, Fiji 20%, Japan 13%, Samoa, Australia,
US

Debt--external: $NA

Economic aid--recipient: $8.3 million (1995)

Currency: 1 New Zealand dollar (NZ$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: New Zealand dollars (NZ$) per US$1--1.8560
(January 1999), 1.8629 (1998), 1.5082 (1997), 1.4543 (1996), 1.5235
(1995), 1.6844 (1994)

Fiscal year: 1 April--31 March

Communications

Telephones: 276 (1992 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: single-line telephone system connects all villages on
island
international: NA

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1987 est.)

Radios: 1,000

Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997)

Televisions: 312 (1991 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 234 km
paved: 0 km
unpaved: 234 km

Ports and harbors: none; offshore anchorage only

Merchant marine: none

Airports: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Police Force

Military--note: defense is the responsibility of New Zealand

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: none

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Geography

Location: Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of
Australia

Geographic coordinates: 29 02 S, 167 57 E

Map references: Oceania

Area:
total: 34.6 sq km
land: 34.6 sq km
water: 0 sq km

Area--comparative: about 0.2 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 32 km

Maritime claims:
exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 3 nm

Climate: subtropical, mild, little seasonal temperature variation

Terrain: volcanic formation with mostly rolling plains

Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mount Bates 319