[ISL] Six links on islands, from contested geopolitics to environmental changes to Villiers Island

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• In Toronto, the new Port Lands plan imagines a new island, Villiers, at the mouth of the Don.


• Brexit means, among other thing, that the EU is no longer supporting the UK on the Chagos. The Economist reports.


• VICE notes that people on Mauritius fear extensive fish farming will also boost the shark population offshore.


• The Independent notes that tides and currents have created a new sand bar-cum-island more than 1 km long off of North Carolina, Shelly Island.


• The National Post notes that sub-Arctic Vardo Island, in Norway, has moved on from its fisheries to become a NATO outpost set to watch Russia.


• Carmela Fonbuena reports for The Guardian from Thitu Island, a Filipino-occupied island uncomfortably near a Chinese base in the contested South China Sea.