Stock Photo - Cape Town, Robben Iceland, 02/25/2016 Robben Iceland (Afrikaans: Robben Iceland) is an island in Table Bay in the Atlantic about twelve kilometers off the South African coastal city of Cape Town and 6.9 km from the nearest mainland section at Bloubergstrand. The former prison island was redesigned mid-1990s to a nature and a national monument, the former prison building into a museum. In the former prison Nelson Mandela had spent 18 years as a prisoner in a four-square-meter individual cell. Photo: View from Robben Iceland to Cape Town and Table Mountain - Robben Island,South Africa, 25/02/2016