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Next follow a number of islands styled Sesecrienae (identified with the Veṅgurla Rocks), Aegidii (identified with Goa or with Anjidiv lying farther to the south), and the Caenitae (identified with the Oyster Rocks). Next comes Chersonesus, ‘Peninsula’, which is taken to stand for the Kārwār Point in North Kanara, and then the White Island, equated by Schoff with the modern Pigeon Island off the North Kanara coast. Others prefer to place it near Badāgara to the south-east of Mahe. Aiyangar remarks that the Leuke or White Island of the geographers is the same as the vernacular Velliyan Kallu or Tuvakkal, which he apparently identifies with Pigeon Island.