Pearl Island, Ngapali
Pearl Island
ပုလဲကျွန်း | |
|---|---|
  Pearl Island Location within Myanmar | |
| Coordinates: 18°22′32″N 94°19′16″E / 18.37556°N 94.32111°E | |
| Country | Myanmar |
| State |  Rakhine State |
Pearl Island (Burmese: ပုလဲကျွန်း; also known as Apaw-Ye Kyun) is a small tropical island located off the coast of Ngapali Beach in Rakhine State, Myanmar. It is located more than a mile from Ngapali Beach and covers an area of 108 acres.[1][2]
The island is noted to be known for its scenic coastline, forests, hills, and natural beauty which has potential to become a world-class eco-tourism destination. It is home to rare wildlife, sea turtles, and century-old trees.[3]
In March 2018, the Rakhine State government begun constructing a ring road in the island to boost tourism.[4] In February 2020, a decomposing 40-45 foot whale drifted ashore and became trapped among rocks near the island.[5]
References
- ↑ "ပုလဲကျွန်းကို ကမ္ဘာလှည့် ခရီးသွားနေရာဖြစ်ဖို့ အစီအစဉ်ရေးဆွဲ". မြန်မာဌာန (in Burmese). 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2026-05-24.
- ↑ "Pearl Island - Ngapali, Myanmar". Wanderlog. Retrieved 2026-05-24.
- ↑ မင်းအောင်ခိုင် (2018-03-09). "သံတြဲ ပုလဲကြၽန္း ကမာၻလွည့္ခရီးသြားမ်ား ဆြဲေဆာင္ရာ ေနရာအျဖစ္ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္မည္". ဧရာဝတီ. Retrieved 2026-05-24.
- ↑ Myint, Moe (2018-03-08). "Rakhine Govt Building Ring Road on Popular Island Off Ngapali Beach". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 2026-05-24.
- ↑ "ငပလီမြို့ ပုလဲကျွန်းတွင် ဝေလငါးတစ်ကောင် ကမ်းတင်သေဆုံး". MDN - Myanmar DigitalNews (in Burmese). Retrieved 2026-05-24.