Robben Island (Afrikaans: Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, north of Cape Town, South...
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The Robben Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Robben Island in Table Bay near Cape Town. It was completed in January 1865 and is located on the highest...
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Milnerton Lighthouse, commissioned on 1960-03-10, is located on Table Bay shore in Milnerton, South Africa. Its red sector covers Robben Island. South Africa...
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mid-19th century with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, and a military prison. In 1934, the island was converted into a federal prison...
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lighthouse at Milnerton, Cape Town. It is situated on Woodbridge Island Lighthouses of South Africa. Portnet. 1991. ISBN 0-620-16367-4. "Section 1 - List...
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Officer, Luis Lazaga Gómez, the crew rowed toward the light of Robben Island lighthouse and kept baling the boat as she shipped water. The heavy sea made...
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portioned in height with the northern island being 35 m (115 ft) high and the southern island (also known as Lighthouse Island) rising to 37 m (121 ft). The Southern...
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Utila (redirect from Isla de Utila Lighthouse)
trucks on the entire island The main beach Coral surrounds the island. North America portal Engineering portal List of lighthouses in Honduras List of...
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The Robben Island Marine Protected Area is an inshore and offshore conservation region around and near Robben Island in Table Bay in the territorial waters...
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Two fully automated lighthouses operate on the island to aid passing maritime traffic: Bathurst Lighthouse and Wadjemup Lighthouse. An extensive network...
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- Robben Island, Table Bay) Media related to Robben Island at Wikimedia Commons 9/2/018/0004/02 Robben Island Lighthouse, Robben Island The Robben Island...
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are several islands, listed here from north to south: Sandbore Caye Northern Caye Half Moon Caye Saddle Caye Long Caye Hat Caye Lighthouse Reef is known...
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Iguaçu → Cape Town, South Africa Cape Town → Robben Island Robben Island (Maximum Security Prison) Robben Island → Cape Town Kalk Bay (Kalk Bay Harbour) Kalk...
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on Apo Island, each with a dive center: Apo Island Beach Resort and Liberty's Lodge. There is also a ranger station and a lighthouse. The island is under...
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economically viable industry or commerce. There is a mosque and a lighthouse on the island. On 26 March 2014 Will Goodman set a depth record on a closed circuit...
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large marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland and Belize City. The...
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Cozumel (redirect from Cozumel Island)
Cozumel (Spanish pronunciation: [kosuˈmel]; Yucatec Maya: Kùutsmil) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's...
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Socorro Island (Spanish: Isla Socorro) is a volcanic island in the Revillagigedo Islands, a Mexican possession lying 600 kilometres (370 mi) off the country's...
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Firth of Clyde (category Islands of the Clyde)
Arran Corsewall Lighthouse, Corsewall Point, Kirkcolm Davaar Lighthouse, Davaar Island, Campbeltown Loch Sanda Lighthouse, Sanda Island, off the south...
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The Similan Islands (Thai: หมู่เกาะสิมิลัน, RTGS: Mu Ko Similan, Thai pronunciation: [mùː kɔ̀ʔ si.mi.lan], Malay: Kepulauan Sembilan) is a continental...
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Chuuk Lagoon (redirect from Truk Island)
maximal elevation of 443 metres (1,453 ft). Weno city on Weno (formerly Moen) Island functions as both the atoll's capital and the state capital, and is the...
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Malapascua (redirect from Malapascua Island)
a Philippine island situated in the Visayan Sea, 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi) across a shallow strait from the northernmost tip of Cebu Island. Administratively...
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Daedalus Reef (redirect from Daedalus Reef Lighthouse)
from Marsa Alam. There is a small artificial island in the center of the reef, which hosts a lighthouse constructed in 1863 and rebuilt in 1931. Daedalus...
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Weh Island (Indonesian: Pulau Weh, Acehnese: Pulo Wèh) is a small active volcanic island to the northwest of Sumatra in Indonesia, also known as Sabang...
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The Poor Knights Islands (Māori: Tawhiti Rahi) are a group of islands off the east coast of the Northland Region of the North Island of New Zealand. They...
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Molokini (redirect from Molokini Island)
seven Pleistocene epoch volcanoes that formed the prehistoric Maui Nui island, during the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era. The islet has an area...
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on and around the Yucatán Peninsula, such as at the Great Blue Hole at Lighthouse Reef Atoll, Belize. Many deep spring basins formed by karst processes...
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Tulagi (redirect from Tulagi Island)
Tulaghi, is a small island in Solomon Islands, just off the south coast of Ngella Sule. The town of the same name on the island (pop. 1,750) was the...
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Sipadan (redirect from Sipadan island)
Sipadan (Malay: Pulau Sipadan) is the only oceanic island in Malaysia, rising 600 metres (2,000 ft) from the seabed. It is located in the Celebes Sea off...
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coral island in the Caribbean Sea. Politically part of Colombia, and historically tied to the United Kingdom, San Andrés and the nearby islands of Providencia...
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