[ISL[ Five islands links: Devil's Island, Hainan, Hashima, Newfoundland, global warming floods

[rfmcdonald]

• Business Insider shares some haunting photos of the old French prison island of Devil's Island, in French Guiana, here.


• China is authorizing a horse lottery for its tourist-heavy southern tropical island of Hainan. Bloomberg reports.


• National Geographic shares photos of Japan's Hashima Island, once a densely inhabited industrial conurbation and now at risk of succumbing entirely.


• A fixed link between the island of Newfoundland and the Canadian mainland--more precisely, a rail link connecting the Northern Peninsula to a new route on the adjacent Labrador shore--may well be a viable proposal. CBC reports.


• The worsening of wave-induced flooding on tropical islands might well make very many uninhabitable, by contaminating their water tables. National Geographic reports.