Pierre Sicaud

Pierre Sicaud (14 March 1911 – 15 January 1998)[1] was a French colonial administrator.

During the Second World War, he joined the Free French Air Force as a parachutist and commanded a squadron of the SAS.

[2] In 1949 Sicaud was sent to the Kerguelen Islands in order to reinforce French sovereignty.

[3] From 1955 to 1958 Sicaud was governor of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon[4] and then from 1958 to 1961 of French Polynesia, during which he supervised the building of Tahiti's airport.

He is honoured on a postage stamp of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands issued in 1999.