Pontikonisi ( el, Ποντικονήσι, "mouse island") is an uninhabited islet off the coast of western
Crete
Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, ...
. Administratively, it is part of the municipality
Kissamos, in
Chania regional unit. There is a small islet close to Pontikonisi called
Pontikaki ("little mouse").
See also
*
Pontikonisi
Pontikonisi ( el, Ποντικονήσι, "Mouse Island") is a Greek islet near the island of Corfu. Its prominent feature is a Byzantine chapel of Pantokrator, dating from the 11th or 12th century.
In Homer's ''The Odyssey'', Poseidon turns the ...
, an islet off the shore of Corfu
*
List of islands of Greece
Greece has many islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 and 227.
The largest Greek island by ...
Landforms of Chania (regional unit)
Uninhabited islands of Crete
Mediterranean islands
Islands of Greece
{{crete-geo-stub