Juan de Nova Island

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Juan de Nova is a 4.8 km ² large tropical island in the Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and Mozambique at 17 ° 3 ' south latitude and 42 ° 45' east longitude.

Politics and Administration

The island belongs to France and, like the rest of Îles Éparses administered by prefects and top managers of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands since 2005. Previously, she had been administered by the prefect of the overseas department of Réunion since 1960 without belonging even to Réunion.

Since independence in 1960, the island of Madagascar is also claimed by this former French colony.

Geography and Economics

On the island there is no indigenous population, but a small military base and a weather station. A sanctuary for wildlife comprises 90 % of the densely forested, flat island. Of raw materials was mined until the 1970s guano in an amount of up to 12,000 tons per year.

The island has no harbor, but an anchorage off the coast, as well as an approximately 1000 m of unpaved landing strip for airplanes and a short, leading to a pier railway line for transporting the once mined guano.

Others

1911 ran aground, the SS Tottenham south of the island (17 ° 5 ' S, 42 ° 43' O 17.07639481666742.71982193 ). The remains can be up to today, even on satellite images, see.

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