Robben Island was a prison near which city?

Maximum Security Prison is an inactive prison at Robben Island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa.

It was prominent because of Nobel Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned there for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid.

Cape Town is a coastal city in South Africa. It is the capital of the Western Cape province. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. As the place where the Parliament of South Africa is found, Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.

Since 1961, Maximum Security Prison was used by the South African government for political prisoners and convicted criminals. The maximum security prison for political prisoners closed in 1991 and the medium-security prison for criminal prisoners was closed five years later in 1996.