Endau

Endau is a small town in Mersing District, Johor, Malaysia. It lies on the northern tip of east Johor, on the border with the state of Pahang. The town was named after a Peranakan Indian who lived in the area, and in the 19th century the British knew it as Blair's Harbour. It was opened by Dato' Mohd Ali on the order of Temenggong Ibrahim, and grew as a centre of the trading, fishing and logging economy. During the Second World War the Japanese created a small settlement of Chinese people from Singapore at Endau to ease food shortages, and it was abandoned after the Japanese surrender. Today the town is one of the largest fishing ports on the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, and it has a tropical rainforest climate with very heavy rainfall, extremely heavy in December.