Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 27:12

12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south-west, and north-west.

This Phenice was a Port-Town in Candia, and not the Countrey in Syria.

Being on the South part of that Island, having a Bay or Road like unto an Half Moon or Crescent; one Horn or part of it (admitting entrance into it) toward the South-West, and the other toward the North-W[illegible: 1 letter]st.