The Cape Floristic Region is a Floristic region located near the southern tip of South Africa. It is the only floristic region of the Cape (South African) Floristic Kingdom, and includes only one floristic province, known as the Cape Floristic Province.

yhe Cape Floristic Region, the smallest of the six recognised floral kingdoms of the world, is an area of extraordinarily high diversity and endemism, and is home to more than 9 000 vascular plant species, of which 69 percent are endemic. Much of this diversity is associated with the fynbos biome, a Mediterranean-type, fire-prone shrubland.

The economical worth of fynbos biodiversity, based on harvests of fynbos products (e.g. wildflowers) and eco tourism, is estimated to be in the region of R77 million a year. Thus, it is clear thant the Cape Floristic Region has both economic biological value as a biodiversity hotspot.

Robben Island is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 km west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for "seal island". Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km. It is flat and only a few metres above sea levl, as a result of an ancient erosion event. The island is composed of Precambrian metamorphic rocks belonging to the Malmesbury Group.

Robben Island is internationally known for the fact that Nobel Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mendela was imprisoned on robben Island for 18 the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid. Kgalema Motlanthe, who also served as President of South Arica, spent 10 years on Robben island as a political prisoner, as did the current president of South Africa jacob Zuma. Robben Island is both a South Africa National Heritage Site as well as a UNESCO World HEritage Site.