Setse

Setse
Setse

Location in Burma

Coordinates: 15°57′N 97°38′E / 15.950°N 97.633°E / 15.950; 97.633Coordinates: 15°57′N 97°38′E / 15.950°N 97.633°E / 15.950; 97.633
Country  Burma
Division Mon State
District Mawlamyine District
Township Thanbyuzayat Township
Population
 • Religions Buddhism
Time zone MST (UTC+6.30)

Setse[1] is a beach resort on the Gulf of Martaban of the Andaman Sea in Thanbyuzayat Township, of Mon State, in southern Myanmar.[2] The beach itself is composed of brown sand, is quite wide[2] and about 5.6 kilometers long, but the water is often muddy when currents bring down silt from the Salween river which enters the Gulf of Martaban just to the north.[3] Setse has been a resort since the 19th century, and still remains popular.[4]

Mawlamyaing University has its Marine Science Laboratory in Setse,[5] which studies commercial uses of algae (seaweed), cultured pearl techniques, and produces commercial agar-agar.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Setse (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  2. 1 2 Reid, Robert and Grosberg, Michael (2005) Myanmar (Burma) (9th edition) Lonely Planet Publications, Footscray, Victoria, Australia, page 160, ISBN 1-74059-695-1
  3. ↑ Eliot, Joshua (1994) 1995 Thailand & Burma Handbook Trade & Travel Publications, Bath, England, page 586, ISBN 0-8442-8981-7
  4. ↑ Rumpf, Dieter (1988) Thailand, Burma (2nd edition, translated from German by Margaret Heberer) Karto+Grafik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, page 166, ISBN 3-88989-076-8
  5. ↑ Thaw Kaung (1 July 1996). "Mawlamyine: the Old and the New". Myanmar Perspectives.; archived here as of 6 January 2009 by Internet Archive
  6. ↑ Ministry of Information Myanmar, facts and figures 2002 Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar, Yangon (Rangoon), Burma, page 45, OCLC 50131671


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