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Chersonnesos Akra

In describing features on the Red Sea coast of Arabia Felix, Ptolemy lists the Chesonnesos Akra. In the Barrington Atlas directory for Map 83, Graf suggests the Ras Abu Madd peninsula as a likely identification, but on the corresponding map, he labels a different feature: the mountainous Jabal Ral outcropping, about 120km north of Ras Abu Madd and some 40km east of the modern coastline.

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