Setse

Setse
Setse Location in Burma
Coordinates: 15°57′N 97°38′E / 15.950°N 97.633°ECoordinates: 15°57′N 97°38′E / 15.950°N 97.633°E
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. 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

External links

• "Setse Map – Satellite Images of Setse" Maplandia World Gazetteer