Pontiae
Πόντιαι νῆσοι
Pontiae (Πόντιαι νῆσοι, Scyl. p. 46), three islands off the coast of the Greater Syrtis. Ptolemy (4.3.36; comp. Stadiasm. § § 72--75) calls these Misynus, Pontia, and Gaea. They may be identified with the reefs of Ghára. (Beechey, Expedition to the N. Coast of Africa, p. 238, App. p. x.; Smyth, Mediterranean, p. 455.)
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.