Endau is a small town in

Mersing District Mersing District is one of the 10 districts district in Johor, Malaysia. Its seat is located at Mersing Town. Etymology The “Mersing” name is derived from the Chinese “Mau Sheng Port” (茂盛港) since 1880 and further simplify to Mersi ...

Johor Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the northwest. Johor shares maritime ...

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

. It lies on the northern tip of east

, on the border with

Pahang Pahang (; Jawi: , Pahang Hulu Malay: ''Paha'', Pahang Hilir Malay: ''Pahaeng'', Ulu Tembeling Malay: ''Pahaq)'' officially Pahang Darul Makmur with the Arabic honorific ''Darul Makmur'' (Jawi: , "The Abode of Tranquility") is a sultanate and ...

Name

The town was named ''Endau'' after a

peranakan The Peranakans () are an ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Southern Chinese settlers to maritime Southeast Asia, known as Nanyang (), namely the British Colonial ruled ports in the Malay Peninsula, ...

Indian who resided in the area. In the 19th century it was known to the British as ''Blair's Harbour''.

History

The town was opened by Dato' Mohd Ali by an order from Temenggong Ibrahim. The town expanded due to its location as the center of economy for the people who worked in the trading, fishing and logging sectors at that time.

Economy

The town is one of the largest fishing ports on the East Coast of

Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia ( ms, Semenanjung Malaysia; Jawi: سمننجڠ مليسيا), or the States of Malaya ( ms, Negeri-negeri Tanah Melayu; Jawi: نڬري-نڬري تانه ملايو), also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, ...

Education

Primary school

#Sekolah Kebangsaan Teriang #Sekolah Kebangsaan Telok Lipat #Sekolah Kebangsaan Tanjung Resang #Sekolah Kebangsaan Pusat Air Tawar #Sekolah Kebangsaan Penyabong #Sekolah Kebangsaan Lembaga Endau #Sekolah Kebangsaan Labung #Sekolah Kebangsaan Bandar Endau #Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) St Joseph (M) #Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Kampung Hubong #Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Cina) Chiao Ching

Secondary school

#Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Ungku Husin

Climate

Endau has a

tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southea ...

(Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round and with extremely heavy rainfall in December.

References

Mersing District Towns in Johor {{Johor-geo-stub