Description
Pontikonisi (Greek: 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 Phaiákian Cutter that brought Odysseus to Ithaka into stone. Pontikonisi Island means ‘Mouse Island’ in Greek and it is from this that it gets it more famous name and viewed from afar the island gives the impression of a mouse.
According to Greek legend the boat of Odysseus was turned into this island by Poseidon.
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