Robben Island

 
Robben Island in Table Bay, area 6sq km/21.5sqmi, was for nearly 400 years, a place of banishment, exile, and imprisonment. Political dissidents and social outcasts were imprisoned here. During the apartheid years Robben Island became internationally known for its institutional brutality. Nelson Mandela spent twenty years here as prisoner No. 466/64.

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