Editing Juan de Nova Island (section)

=== Installation of a weather station (1971–1973) ===
In 1963, an auxiliary weather installation, called "la Goulette," was installed to carry out regular temperature and pressure readings. But on a visit to the island in 1971, a representative of the Weather Service found numerous irregularities in the readings, as well as poor security on the island, which was still under the responsibility of Patureau. Following the recommendations of the [[World Weather Watch]], a basic, year-round weather station was built in 1973 in the southwest part of the island, at the end of the airstrip.

A project to create a [[Club Med]] tourist resort was proposed by [[Gilbert Trigano]], which for a time brought a team of workers to the island under the supervision of Hector Patureau, but it was quickly abandoned.<ref name=":0" />