Robben Island (Dutch, 'seal island'), an islet at the entrance of Table Bay, 10 miles NW. of Capetown. It contains a lunatic asylum and a leper colony, the management of which latter institution caused some discussion in 1889 and 1890.
Robben Island
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 743
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