Setse
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Setse is a beach resort on the Gulf of Martaban
of the Andaman Sea
in Thanbyuzayat Township
, of Mon State
, in southern Burma (Myanmar). The beach itself is composed of brown sand, is quite wide and 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. Setse has been a resort since the 19th century, and still remains popular.
Mawlamyaing University has its Marine Science Laboratory in Setse, which studies commercial uses of algae (seaweed), cultured pearl techniques, and produces commercial agar-agar.
Gulf of Martaban
The Gulf of Martaban is an arm of the Andaman Sea in the southern part of Burma. The gulf is named after the port city of Mottama . The Salween Sittaung and Yangon rivers empty into it....
of the Andaman Sea
Andaman Sea
The Andaman Sea or Burma Sea is a body of water to the southeast of the Bay of Bengal, south of Burma, west of Thailand and east of the Andaman Islands, India; it is part of the Indian Ocean....
in Thanbyuzayat Township
Thanbyuzayat Township
Thanbyuzayat Township is a township of Mawlamyine District in the Mon State of Myanmar.Site of a War Cemetery and the Death Railway Museum, commemorating those POWs and Internees who died constructing the Burma-Siam Railway as slave labour during the Japanese occupation in WWII....
, of Mon State
Mon State
Mon State is an administrative division of Myanmar. It is sandwiched between Kayin State on the east, the Andaman Sea on the west, Bago Region on the north and Tanintharyi Region on the south, and has a short border with Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province at its south-eastern tip. The land area is...
, in southern Burma (Myanmar). The beach itself is composed of brown sand, is quite wide and long, but the water is often muddy when currents bring down silt
Silt
Silt is granular material of a size somewhere between sand and clay whose mineral origin is quartz and feldspar. Silt may occur as a soil or as suspended sediment in a surface water body...
from the Salween river
Salween River
The Salween is a river, about long, that flows from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia. It drains a narrow and mountainous watershed of that extends into the countries China, Burma and Thailand. Steep canyon walls line the swift, powerful and undammed Salween, one of the...
which enters the Gulf of Martaban just to the north. Setse has been a resort since the 19th century, and still remains popular.
Mawlamyaing University has its Marine Science Laboratory in Setse, which studies commercial uses of algae (seaweed), cultured pearl techniques, and produces commercial agar-agar.
External links
- "Setse Map – Satellite Images of Setse" Maplandia World Gazetteer