Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Acts 27:8

8. And hardly passing it--"with difficulty coasting along it," from the same cause as before, the westerly current and head winds.

came to ... the Fair Havens--an anchorage near the center of the south coast, and a little east of Cape Matala, the southern most point of the island.

nigh whereunto was the city Lasea--identified by the Reverend George Brown [Smith, Voyages and Shipwreck of St. Paul, Appendix 3, Second Edition, 1856]. (To this invaluable book commentators on this chapter, and these notes, are much indebted).