[ISL] Five #islands links: Kurils, Chincoteague, Crete, St. Helena, Fisher Island

[rfmcdonald]

• Quartz notes that Japan this year is hoping to regain two of the Kuril Islands from Russia.


• This sad report looks at how the wild horses of Chincoteague island, off the coast of Virginia, are endangered by an infectious fungus.


• Guardian Cities notes how an energetic resistance in Heraklion, chief city of the island of Crete, helped drive out Golden Dawn.


• Conservative Home shares an article noting that hopes for a tourism boom in the isolated South Atlantic island of St. Helena have come to naught because weather makes regular flights prohibitive.


• Bloomberg reported last April that Fisher Island, off Miami, zip code 33109, is the richest zip code in the United States.