Cape Sideros

Cape Sideros or Cape Sidero is a cape at the eastern end of the island of Crete, Greece. Anciently it was known as Samonium or Samonion, Sammonium or Sammonion, Salmonium or Salmonion and Salmone. It was here that the seamen of the Alexandrian vessel which conveyed Paul the Apostle to Rome, thinking they could pursue their voyage under the lee of the island, ran down. The cape is noted by many ancient secular writers including Strabo, Ptolemy, Pomponius Mela, and Pliny the Elder, and in the anonymous Stadiasmus Maris Magni.Just off the promontory, ancient geographers described a reef island called Naulochus or Naumachos.