[ISL] Five #islands links: Malaga, Greenland, Vancouver Island, Menorca, Palau

[rfmcdonald]

• Atlas Obscura takes a look at Malaga Island in Maine, an island brutally depopulated by state authorities a century ago because of its non-white population.


• Gizmodo notes the discovery of some of the oldest soil ever found, paleosoil, 3.7 billion years old, in Greenland.


• A fringe political candidate in British Columbia wants his Vancouver Island to become a separate province. The Province reports.


• The Gibraltar Chronicle has a feature on a journalist with a book exploring the historical connection between Gibraltar and the Balearic island of Menorca, at one time a British possession.


• The Guardian reports on how Palau dealt with a freeze on tourism from China over its continued recognition of Taiwan.