Juan de Nova
Île Juan de Nova (or Island Juan da Nova ) is a tropical island punt of 4,4 km ² located in the channel of Mozambique and surrounded by a large coral barrier. Its coordinates are: . It holds its name of João da Nova, the Portuguese navigator who discovered it. A railway line was built there to transport guano. It today is not used any more. The island does not offer any port, but has a runway of 1,2 km.
The island is sometimes to call " Island of Jean de Noves" , to go up that this possession belongs well to France. This denomination was in the atlases of the Seventies (at the time of the independence of Madagascar).
Geography
The island does not have indigenous population, it shelters a small garrison of 14 soldiers of 2° RPIMa, a gendarme and an automated weather station. The economic main resource, exploited until 1968 by Comorian and Malagasy workmen on behalf of the SOFIM (French company of the Malagasy Islands), is the Guano used as fertilizer.
Administration
Since January 3rd, 2005, Juan de Nova is managed by the prefect, administrator higher of TAAF. It is a possession of France (a “private field of the State”) which belongs to a group of French islands called “scattered Îles of the Indian Ocean”. The Republic of Madagascar claims sovereignty of it.Since the law n° 2007-224 of the bearing February 21st, 2007 statutory and institutional provisions relative to overseas, the island Juan de Nova forms part, with the others islands Éparses: Based da India, Europa, Glorieuses and Tromelin, of the fifth district of the southern and antarctic Lands French (TAAF), Overseas territory.
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