Where to travel, travel and route planner » penguin island http://www.dankuna.com/blog Best travel, maps, GPS, weather, images, cheap hotels Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:15:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Robben Island, Cape Town http://www.dankuna.com/blog/robben-island-cape-town.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=robben-island-cape-town http://www.dankuna.com/blog/robben-island-cape-town.html#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 05:37:11 +0000 Ike http://www.dankuna.com/blog/?p=2362 [...]]]>
Robben Island or is an island in Table Bay, some seven kilometres off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for “”. Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a few metres above sea level, as a result of an ancient erosion event. The island is composed of Precambrian metamorphic rocks belonging to the Malmesbury Group. It is of particular note as it was here that former South African President and Nobel Laureate and former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe, alongside many other political prisoners, spent decades imprisoned during the apartheid era. vacations.
Cape Town GPS travel help: 33° 48′ 24.24″ S, 18° 21′ 58.4″ E

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