Robben Island
Robben Island is in the Western Cape of South Africa, approximately 7 km off the coast and 12 km from Cape Town harbour. This island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Table Bay, South Africa
- Also known as: “Robbeneiland”
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Robben Island and Church of the Good Shepherd, Robben Island.
Robben Island
Museum
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Robben Island Prison is an inactive prison on Robben Island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometers west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. Nobel Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid.
Robben Island
- Categories: prison island and landform
- Location: Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Robben Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Robben eiland”
- Afrikaans: “Robben-eiland”
- Afrikaans: “Robbeneiland”
- Arabic: “جزيرة روبن ايلاند”
- Arabic: “جزيرة روبن”
- Armenian: “Ռոբեն Այլենդ”
- Asturian: “Isla Robben”
- Asturian: “Islla Robben”
- Basque: “Robben uhartea”
- Basque: “Robben Uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Робэна”
- Bengali: “রোবেন দ্বীপ”
- Catalan: “illa de Robben”
- Catalan: “Robben Island”
- Cebuano: “Robben Island”
- Chinese: “罗本岛”
- Chinese: “羅本島”
- Croatian: “Otok Robben”
- Croatian: “Robben Island”
- Croatian: “Robben”
- Czech: “Robben Island”
- Danish: “Robben Island”
- Dutch: “Robben Eiland”
- Dutch: “Robben Island”
- Dutch: “Robbeneiland”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Robben”
- Finnish: “Robben Island”
- French: “Robben Island”
- French: “Robbeneiland”
- Galician: “Illa Robben”
- Georgian: “რობენი”
- German: “Robben Island”
- German: “Robbeneiland”
- Greek: “Νήσος Ρόμπεν”
- Hebrew: “רובן איילנד”
- Hebrew: “רובן”
- Hindi: “रॉबेन द्वीप”
- Hindi: “रोबेन द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Robben-sziget”
- Icelandic: “Robben-eyja”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Robben”
- Interlingua: “Insula de Robben”
- Italian: “Robben Island”
- Japanese: “ロッベン島”
- Japanese: “ロベン島”
- Japanese: “ロベン監獄島”
- Korean: “로벤 섬”
- Korean: “로벤섬”
- Korean: “로빈 섬”
- Korean: “로빈 아일랜드”
- Kotava: “Robben Ewala”
- Latvian: “Robena”
- Luxembourgish: “Robben Island”
- Maithili: “रोब्बेन टापु”
- Malay: “Pulau Robben”
- Malayalam: “റോബൻ ദ്വീപ്”
- Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Robben”
- Maltese: “Gżira ta’ Robben”
- Maltese: “Robben Island”
- Nepali: “रोब्बेन टापु”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Robben Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Robben Island”
- Norwegian: “Robben Island”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Robben Island”
- Persian: “جزیره رابن”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ رابن”
- Persian: “جزیره روبن”
- Polish: “Robben Island”
- Polish: “Robben”
- Polish: “Robbeneiland”
- Polish: “Wyspa Robben”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Robben”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Robben”
- Portuguese: “Robben island”
- Portuguese: “Robben”
- Romanian: “Insula Robben”
- Romanian: “Robben”
- Russian: “Остров Роббен-Айленд”
- Russian: “Остров Роббен”
- Russian: “Роббен-Айленд”
- Russian: “Роббен”
- Russian: “Роббенэйланд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otok Robben”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Robben”
- Shona: “Chitsuwa cha Robheni”
- Slovak: “Robben Island”
- South Ndebele: “I-Roben island”
- Spanish: “Isla Robben”
- Spanish: “Robben Island”
- Swahili: “Robben Island”
- Swati: “Sichingi saseRobben”
- Swedish: “Robben Island”
- Tamil: “ராபன் தீவு”
- Thai: “เกาะร็อบเบน”
- Thai: “เกาะโรบเบิน”
- Tsonga: “Robben island”
- Turkish: “Robben Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Роббенайланд”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ روبن”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Robben”
- Welsh: “Ynys Robben”
- Western Frisian: “Robbe-eilân”
- Western Frisian: “Robbeneilân”
- Wu Chinese: “罗本岛”
- Xhosa: “Robben island”
- Xhosa: “Robben Island”
- Yoruba: “Erékùṣù Robben”
- Yoruba: “Robben Island”
- Zulu: “I-Robben Island”
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