Setse

Setse
စက်စဲကမ်းခြေ
Setse is located in Myanmar
Setse
Setse
Location in Burma
Coordinates: 15°57′N 97°38′E / 15.950°N 97.633°E / 15.950; 97.633
Country Burma
DivisionMon State
DistrictMawlamyine District
TownshipThanbyuzayat Township
Population
 • Religions
Buddhism
Time zoneUTC+6.30 (MST)

Setse[1](Burmese: စက်စဲကမ်းခြေ) 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 (3.5 mi) 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] Agar jellies are commonly used in traditional Myanmar desserts and other Asian culinary.

  1. ^ Setse (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  2. ^ a b 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 from the original on 6 January 2009.; archived 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