For each of
n=1,2,3 we find the minimal height

of a nontorsion point
P of an elliptic curve
E over
C(
T) of discriminant degree
d=12
n (equivalently, of arithmetic genus
n), and exhibit all (
E,
P) attaining this minimum. The minimal

was known to equal 1/30 for
n=1 (Oguiso-Shioda) and 11/420 for
n=2 (Nishiyama), but the formulas for the general (
E,
P) were not known, nor was the fact that these are also the minima for an elliptic curve of discriminant degree 12
n over a function field of any genus. For
n=3 both the minimal height (23/840) and the explicit curves are new. These (
E,
P) also have the property that that
mP is an integral point (a point of naïve height zero) for each
m=1,2,...,
M, where
M=6,8,9 for
n=1,2,3; this, too, is maximal in each of the three cases.