Cape Bon

{{Short description|Peninsula in northeastern Tunisia}}{{Infobox landform

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| photo_caption = Cape Bon from space (false color)

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| map_caption = Location in Tunisia

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| location = Nabeul Governorate, Tunisia

| coordinates = {{coord|36|45|N|10|45|E |region:TN |format=dms|display=inline,title}}

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Cape Bon ("Good Cape"), also known as Res et-Teib ({{langx|ar|الرأس الطيب}}),[http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9357652/ - Britannica Concise] Shrīk Peninsula, or Watan el Kibli,[https://www.britannica.com/place/Sharik-Peninsula Sherīk Peninsula], Encyclopedia Britannica is a peninsula in far northeastern Tunisia. Cape Bon is also the name of the northernmost point on the peninsula, also known as Res ed-Der, and known in antiquity as the Cape of Mercury ({{langx|la|Promontorium Mercurii}};{{cite book|last=Shaw|first=Thomas|title=Travels, Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Cuts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0c4GAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA76|year=1757|publisher=A. Millar in the Strand, and W. Sandby in Fleet-Street.|page=76}} {{langx|grc|Ερμαία ἄκρα}}[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DM%3Aentry+group%3D10%3Aentry%3Dmercutrii-prom-geo Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Mercurii Prom]) or Cape Hermaeum.The Fall of Carthage, Adrian Goldsworthy, Orion Books Ltd., 2006, ISBN 978-0-3043-6642-2