Muara
| Pekan Muara Muara |
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| Coordinates | 5 ° 2 ' N , 115 ° 4' E | ||
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| Country | Brunei | ||
| Brunei-Muara | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | BN-BM | ||
 Muara
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Muara (Malay Pekan Muara ) is a city in the Sultanate of Brunei on the north coast of the island of Borneo . The word Muara is the Malaysian name for estuary .
geography
Muara is located on the northeastern tip of West Brunei and gives its name to the Brunei-Muara district of the Sultanate. The city is part of the Mukim Serasa and borders the South China Sea to the north, Brunei Bay to the east, and the rest of the Mukim Serasa to the west and south. On the other side of the 50 meter wide and 10 meter deep canal to the port of the city is Cape Tanjung Pelumpong, today a popular leisure and excursion destination. Muara is the Malay word for estuary, which occurs several times in geographical terms in Southeast Asia .
history
Muara developed from a fishing village after it served as a loading point for the export of hard coal to supply fuel to steam ships from the nearby Brooketon colliery . This was built from 1883 by Charles Johnson Brooke , the White Raja of Sarawak , with its own police force, post office, etc. After the First World War and the subsequent economic downturn, the Raja gave up his extraterritorial rights in the Brooketon colliery in 1921 and closed the colliery in 1921 1924.
The Japanese Empire occupied Brunei in December 1941 during World War II and exploited the coal deposits for local use. In June 1945, Muara and Brunei were liberated by Australian troops as part of Operation Oboe and were then provisionally administered by the British military.
economy
In the 1960s was under the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III. the port of Muara expanded into a deep water port. This once included the breakthrough in front of Cape Tanjung Pelumpong, which enabled larger ships to access the port. From 1973 the quays were expanded, the warehouses were enlarged to over 32,000 m 2 of storage area and the external storage area to 5 hectares.
It is planned to make the port attractive for ships with greater drafts by deepening the Muara Canal to 16 meters. Parts of the port are used by the Royal Dutch Shell company for their offshore activities. The base of the Royal Brunei Navy has been used for the stationing of three supply ships since 1997.