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  2. Robben Island Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    The Robben Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Robben Island in Table Bay near Cape Town. ... This page was last edited on 1 December 2023, at 16:11 (UTC).

  3. Robben Island - Wikipedia

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    Robben Island ( Afrikaans: Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, north of Cape Town, South Africa. It takes its name from the Dutch word for seals ( robben ), hence the Dutch/Afrikaans name Robbeneiland, which translates to Seal (s) Island . Robben Island is roughly oval in shape ...

  4. Cadiz Freedom Swim - Wikipedia

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    The Cadiz Freedom Swim is an extreme 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) open water swimming race from Robben Island to Big Bay, Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa.It takes place annually close to Freedom Day (27 April, the date of South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994 when Nelson Mandela was elected President, marking the end of the Apartheid era and the freedom of the people).

  5. Robins Island - Wikipedia

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    A historic map of Robins Island which can be dated to the years between 1834 and 1845. Robins Island is a 435-acre (1.76 km 2) island in Peconic Bay by the eastern end of Long Island off the coast of New Suffolk, New York. The island is privately owned and not accessible to the public and is within the jurisdiction of the Town of Southold in ...

  6. Table Bay - Wikipedia

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    Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for decades, is in this bay. The bay's beaches were oiled following an accident involving the Dutch tanker Sliedrecht in November 1953. The vessel moved 96 km (60 mi) offshore to pump out 1,000 tonnes of oil that had been fouled with seawater after the initial impact.

  7. Eddie Daniels (political activist) - Wikipedia

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    30 November 2017. (2017-11-30) (aged 89) Somerset West, South Africa. Nationality. South African. Known for. Anti- apartheid activism. Edward Daniels OLS (25 October 1928 - 30 November 2017) was a South African former anti-apartheid activist who spent fifteen years as a political prisoner on Robben Island, during the years that Nelson Mandela ...

  8. Robben Island (prison) - Wikipedia

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    Robben Island Prison is an inactive prison on Robben Island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) 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 .

  9. Sonny Venkatrathnam - Wikipedia

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    Sonny Venkatrathnam (27 July 1935 – 15 March 2019) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and human rights activist who was imprisoned in the Robben Island Maximum Security Prison along with other anti-apartheid activists including Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, and Mac Maharaj. [1] He was most famously known for smuggling an edition of ...

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