This image is from Robben Island in Cape Town, South Africa. Originally used by Dutch colonists as a leper colony and mental asylum, the island gained its fame in the late 1900's as a political prison for anti-Apartheid activists such as Nelson Mandela and current South African president, Jacob Zuma. I visited there in the summer of 2010 with Mercer On Mission. This map traces out the first part of the island including the main prison and graveyard for lepers. The black spot indicates the first time I (or most of the people on the trip) had ever seen a penguin in the wild. Don't be deceived; they are anything but cute and cuddly.
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