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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
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Photo: South African Tourism, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
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.
Robben Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Table Bay, South Africa
- Categories: prison island and landform
- Location: Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-33.8064° or 33° 48' 23" southLongitude
18.3688° or 18° 22' 8" eastElevation
17 metres (56 feet)Open Location Code
4FRW59V9+CGGeoNames ID
3362356Wikidata ID
Q192493Robben Island Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Robben-eiland
- Afrikaans: Robbeneiland
- Afrikaans: Robben eiland
- Arabic: جزيرة روبن
- Arabic: جزيرة روبن ايلاند
- Armenian: Ռոբեն Այլենդ
- Asturian: Isla Robben
- Asturian: Islla Robben
- Avaric: Robben Ewala
- Basque: Robben Uhartea
- Basque: Robben uhartea
- Belarusian: Востраў Робэна
- Bengali: রোবেন দ্বীপ
- Catalan: Robben Island
- Catalan: illa de Robben
- Cebuano: Robben Island
- Chinese: 罗本岛
- Chinese: 羅本島
- Croatian: Otok Robben
- Croatian: Robben
- Croatian: Robben Island
- Czech: Robben Island
- Danish: Robben Island
- Dutch: Robben Eiland
- Dutch: Robben Island
- Dutch: Robbeneiland
- English: Robbeneiland
- Esperanto: Insulo Robben
- Finnish: Robben Island
- French: Robben Island
- Galician: Illa Robben
- Georgian: რობენი
- German: Robben Island
- German: Robbeneiland
- Greek: Νήσος Ρόμπεν
- Hebrew: רובן
- Hebrew: רובן איילנד
- Hindi: रॉबेन द्वीप
- Hindi: रोबेन द्वीप
- Hungarian: Robben-sziget
- Icelandic: Robben-eyja
- Indonesian: Pulau 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
- Nepali: रोब्बेन टापु
- Norwegian: Robben Island
- Norwegian Bokmål: Robben Island
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Robben Island
- Occitan (post 1500): Robben Island
- Persian: جزیره رابن
- Persian: جزیره روبن
- Persian: جزیرهٔ رابن
- Polish: Robben
- Polish: Robben Island
- Polish: Robbeneiland
- Polish: Wyspa Robben
- Portuguese: Ilha Robben
- Portuguese: Ilha de Robben
- Portuguese: Robben
- Portuguese: Robben island
- 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
- Spanish: Isla Robben
- Spanish: Robben Island
- Swahili: Robben Island
- Swati: Sichingi saseRobben
- Swedish: Robben Island
- Tamil: ராபன் தீவு
- Thai: เกาะร็อบเบน
- Thai: เกาะโรบเบิน
- 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
Other Places Named Robben Island
In the Area
Robben Island is situated close to the neighbourhoods Waters Edge Estate and Dune Ridge Estate 1 & 2.
- Robben Island VillageVillage
- Bloubergstrand
- BloubergrantSuburb, 10 km east
- Breckenridge VillageLocality, 10 km east
- Wentworth VillageNeighbourhood, 10 km east
- SunningdaleSuburb, 11 km east
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Robben Island. Photo: Rq88187, Public domain.