Pantai Remis

Pantai Remis is a coastal town in Manjung District in the state of Perak, Malaysia, between Simpang near Taiping and Sitiawan. The town was founded in the late 1940s, and its name is probably derived from remis, a grey and easily crushed sea shell. It lies on the estuary of the Bruas River, where the port of the Hindu kingdom of Gangga Nagara is believed to have stood. Pantai Remis serves as a commercial centre for surrounding towns, and rubber, palm oil, rice, sugar cane and fishing are its major industries. It has an independent Chinese secondary school, Yik Ching High School, and a national school, SMK Pantai Remis. South of the town the coast has up to seven sandy beaches, the third of which was the site of a tin mine landslide filmed in 1993.