Robben Island, the Ex Prison Island

Robben Island is a historical island located in Cape, South Africa. Thousands years ago, people live in the island. However since the Dutch settled at the Cape in the mid of 17th Century, Robben Island had been used as a prison. Robben Island is a really unwanted place to live in hundred years. It was a place for isolation, imprisonment, political troublemakers and the unwanted person of society. This place is well known from the place of which the Nelson Mandela, the South American President, who was in the era as a political fighters. Today, Robben Island is listed in one of the World Heritage Site in 1999 and opened for public. It is also being a National Museum, a National Monument of South Africa, Heritage Site and Associated Institution.