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Lumut is a small town (population 31,880) in Perak, Malaysia, situated about 84 km south of Ipoh, 2 km from the town of Sitiawan and it is the gateway to Pangkor Island. It is a quaint little town famous for its beautiful seashell and coral handicrafts. The once little-known fishing town has since become the home base of the Royal Malaysian Navy. State motto: no State motto Capital Ipoh Royal Capital Kuala Kangsar Sultan Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah Chief Minister Dato Seri Diraja Tajol Rosli bin Mohd Ghazali Area 21,006 km² Population - Est. ...
Nickname: Location in Malaysia Coordinates: Country Malaysia State Perak Establishment Around 1880 Government - Mayor Mohamad Rafiai Moktar Area - City 643 km² (248. ...
Sitiawan (alternate spelling: Setiawan; origin: from Malay, a portmanteau of Setia Kawan, meaning Loyal Friend) is a region in the Manjung district of Perak, Malaysia. ...
Pangkor Island was administrated by Strait Settlements (British) after the signing of Pangkor Treaty in 1874. ...
The hard, rigid outer calcium carbonate covering of certain animals is called a shell. ...
Precious coral or red coral is the common name given to Corallium rubrum and several related species of marine coral. ...
Royal Malaysian Navy ensign Image:Royal Malaysian Navy crest. ...
Lumut in Malay means moss, lichen, or seaweed. In its early days, the beach is said to be rich in moss, so the local people called it Lumut. Lumut jetty now is the staging-off point to various beautiful offshore islands, including Pangkor Island. The Malay language, also known locally as Bahasa Melayu, is an Austronesian language spoken by the Malay people who reside in the Malay Peninsula, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau islands, parts of the coast of Borneo and even in the Netherlands[1]. It is an...
Subclasses Sphagnidae Andreaeidae Tetraphidae Polytrichidae Archidiidae Buxbaumiidae Bryidae Mosses are small, soft plants that are typically 1–10 cm tall, though some species are much larger. ...
Lichenes from Ernst Haeckels Artforms of Nature, 1904 Lichens are symbiotic associations of a fungus (the mycobiont) with a photosynthetic partner (the photobiont also known as the phycobiont) that can produce food for the lichen from sunlight. ...
Ascophyllum nodosum exposed to the sun in Nova Scotia, Canada Dead Mans Fingers (Codium fragile) off Massachusetts coast For the band, see; Seaweed (band) For the rock musician, see; Seaweed (musician) Seaweeds are any of a large number of marine benthic algae. ...
Beach on Pangkor - Photo by Reinhard R Kroisenbrunner Pulau Pangkor is an island off the coast of Perak in north-west peninsular Malaysia, reached by ferry from Lumut, a small coastal town that links to Ipoh. ...
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History
In the early days, Lumut was a sheltered natural jetty when large Hock Chew community docked and make its way Sitiawan. The estuary at that time was characterised by damp mossy soils on reddish earths. Tins and lumber from as far as Kinta were transported by elephants and sampans.
External links - Project Sitiawan; Directory of Sitiawanians Online
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