Robben Island

 Robben Island is the most beautiful island which sits in South Africa’s Table Bay, only 7 kilometers from Cape Town’s beaches, during a rather spectacular physical setting. however this island is not any pleasure resort. Instead, it's served as an area of imprisonment, banishment, and isolation for a few four centuries—most notably housing the head of South Africa’s anti-apartheid movements.
During earlyage the island, truly the tip of a currently submerged mountain, was connected to the dry land. At the shut of the last glacial epoch some 12,000 years past, rising ocean levels separated it from the bounds.
When the Dutch arrived to settle the Cape within the seventeenth century they shortly began to place the island to use as a prison—a role it continuing to play till 1991.
During the nineteenth century African chiefs of assorted tribes were banished to the current island. Muslim leaders from Dutch colonies within the East Indies were additionally unfree here, as were colonial troopers and civilians.

The tiny (1.9-square-mile/5-square-kilometer) island is associate ineradicable a part of South Africa’s history however these days faces many grave threats. the primary is from a very unlikely source: rabbits.
The governments of town of Cape Town and therefore the Western Cape warn that maybe twenty 5,000 rabbits square measure running amok when being introduced on the island. The hungry critters square measure denuding the island of vegetation and burrowing therefore extensively that they'll harm some historic structures.

Unfortunately, problems with management and felony have surfaced at the Robben Island depository (manager of the planet Heritage site), that cause a way larger threat than the rabbits. The organization is subject to in progress  investigate by South Africa’s auditor general, and  management is in transition. a robust future administration are crucial to the preservation of this distinctive piece of African history.