Now Museum and Nature reserve. During apartheid years was a prison colony for mainly political prisoners.
South Africa's first democratic President, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on the Island for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid.
The island was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
Islands, Historical, UNESCO
Links: en.wikipedia.org, whc.unesco.org
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