Pierre Sicaud

Pierre Sicaud (1911–1998) 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. He fought in Britanny and in the Netherlands (Operation Amherst).

In 1949 he was sent to the Kerguelen Islands in order to reinforce the French sovereignty. He found a location where to build an airstrip and to settle a permanent station. He chose the name of Port-aux-Français and during the following years achieved its foundation.

From 1955 to 1958 he was the governor of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and then from 1958 to 1961 of French Polynesia where he supervised the building of Tahiti's airport.

He died in 1998. A postage stamp of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands edited in 1999 commemorates Pierre Sicaud.