Othonoi (, ) is an island and a former community of the
Ionian Islands,
Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of
Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. It is the
westernmost point of Greece, located northwest of
Corfu. Population 392 (2011). In the 19th century the island used to be the capital of the
Diapontia Islands municipality, which also included nearby islands of
Ereikoussa and
Mathraki. Most of the island's inhabitants can trace their origins to
Paxi island, south of Corfu, as people from Paxi were settled in the island beginning in the 1570s by the
Venetian Republic. A cave, near the Aspri Ammos (White Sand) beach, is traditionally believed to have been the place where
Calypso kept
Odysseus captive.