Prison island

Alcatraz , one of the most famous prison islands

As a prison island are islands referred to complete than prison be used. The island location itself complements or replaces the otherwise usual safety barriers: The water around the island represents a natural barrier for escapes. B. Sharks represent a psychological threshold for escapees.

Prison Islands and their most famous prisoners

Africa

Robben Island off Cape Town (South Africa) - Nelson Mandela , Jacob Zuma

America

Alcatraz in front of San Francisco (USA) - Al Capone , James J. Bulger , Robert Franklin Stroud
Rikers Island in New York (USA)
Fort Jefferson , Florida (USA)
Isla Beata in the south of the Dominican Republic
Gorgona off Colombia
San Lucas, Costa Rica
Devil Island off the coast of French Guiana - Alfred Dreyfus
Ilha Grande in Angra dos Reis ( Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ), since 1903, disbanded after mutinies in 1994 and now part of a nature reserve .
McNeil Island off Seattle

Asia

İmralı in the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) - A. Menderes , A. Öcalan
Atauro (East Timor), first used by the Portuguese colonial power, used by the Indonesian occupiers between 1980 and 1986 .
Côn Đảo (Vietnam)
Nusa Kambangan (Indonesia)
Ko Tarutao (Thailand)
Sakhalin in the Siberian Pacific - the majority of which are descendants of Russian prisoners from the 19th century onwards.
Kambangan Indonesian island on the south coast of Java
Buru (Indonesia, Moluccas) - Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Australia

St. Helena Island off Brisbane, "the hell hole of the Pacific"
Cockatoo Island on Sydney Harbor
Norfolk Island

The penal island of Château d'If with Marseille in the background

Europe

Hahnöfersand in the Elbe near Hamburg (Germany), Hamburg prison for young people and women
Fort Boyard off the French Atlantic coast
Gyaros and Makronisos (Greece)
Asinara off Sardinia (Italy)
Santo Stefano (Italy)
Pianosa in the Tuscan Archipelago - just as feared as Alcatraz above

Gorgona in front of Livorno (Italy)

Goli Otok in the Adriatic Sea, today Croatia, Yugoslav prison island at the time of communism

Bastøy in front of Oslo (Norway)

Solovetsky Islands (Russia)

Bass Rock (Scotland)

Individual evidence

^ Franz Dornseiff, Uwe Quasthoff, Herbert Ernst Wiegand: The German vocabulary according to subject groups . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-11-017921-0 , p. 612 .

Web links

Wiktionary: prison island - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

[1] Franz Dornseiff, Uwe Quasthoff, Herbert Ernst Wiegand: The German vocabulary according to subject groups . Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-11-017921-0 , p. 612 .