[ISL] Five islands links: Kerguelens, Faroes, Hainan, Kuril Islands, Qatar

[rfmcdonald]

• The albatross of France's sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Islands are facing pressure, alas. CNRS reports.


• The New Yorker takes a look at Koks, a Michelin-starred restaurant in the Faroes that takes rare advantage of local food.


• The Chinese island-province of Hainan might be trying to position itself as an international tourism destination, but restrictions on the Internet continue. Quartz reports.


• Is a bare majority of the Kuril Islands' population is of Ukrainian background? Window on Eurasia suggests it may be so.


• The intensity of the desire of Saudi Arabia's government to literally make Qatar an island through canal construction worries me, frankly. VOX reports.