Palindromus Promontorium
Παλίνδρομος ἄκρα
Palindromus Promontorium (Παλίνδρομος ἄκρα), a promontory of the extreme SW. of the Arabian peninsula, at the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, placed by Ptolemy between Ocelis Emporium and Posidium Promontorium, in long. 74° 30′, lat. 11° 40′ (6.7.7). It now bears the same name as the strait. (Moresby, Sailing Directions for the Red Sea, p. 2.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.