Cape Bon

Cape Bon
Cape Bon
Peninsula
	Cape Bon from space (false color)
	Location in Tunisia
	Coordinates: 36°45′N 10°45′E / 36.750°N 10.750°E
Location	Nabeul Governorate, Tunisia

Cape Bon ("Good Cape"), also known as Res et-Teib (Arabic: الرأس الطيب),^[1] Shrīk Peninsula, or Watan el Kibli,^[2] is a peninsula in far northeastern Tunisia. Cape Bon is also the name of the northernmost point on the peninsula, also known as Res ed-Der, and known in antiquity as the Cape of Mercury (Latin: Promontorium Mercurii;^[3] Ancient Greek: Ερμαία ἄκρα^[4]) or Cape Hermaeum.^[5]

^ - Britannica Concise
^ Sherīk Peninsula, Encyclopedia Britannica
^ Shaw, Thomas (1757). Travels, Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Cuts. A. Millar in the Strand, and W. Sandby in Fleet-Street. p. 76.
^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Mercurii Prom
^ The Fall of Carthage, Adrian Goldsworthy, Orion Books Ltd., 2006, ISBN 978-0-3043-6642-2

[1] - Britannica Concise

[2] Sherīk Peninsula, Encyclopedia Britannica

[Shaw1757-3] Shaw, Thomas (1757). Travels, Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Cuts. A. Millar in the Strand, and W. Sandby in Fleet-Street. p. 76.

[4] Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Mercurii Prom

[5] The Fall of Carthage, Adrian Goldsworthy, Orion Books Ltd., 2006, ISBN 978-0-3043-6642-2

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