[ISL] Four links about Pacific islands, from Guam and Yap to Norfolk and blackbirding

[rfmcdonald]

• North Korea's nuclear threats seem not to have deterred tourists from Guam. Might they make the island's tourism? Travel and Leisure reports.


• As National Geographic observes, Yap--an island state of the Federated States of Micronesia--is increasingly caught between China and the US.


• Can Norfolk Island, as proposed, actually break from Australia and join New Zealand? Does New Zealand want it? The Guardian describes this movement.


• The Guardian notes that calls for recognition, even belated justice, by descendants of Melanesian slaves in Queensland are growing louder.