Teluk Mahkota (also known by its former name Jason's Bay or JB) is a bay and tourism attraction in

Sedili Sedili or Tanjung Sedili is a coastal region in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia. At the eastern end of this region is a bay known as Teluk Mahkota. At the northern end of Teluk Mahkota bay lies the villages of Tanjung Sedili and Sedili Bes ...

Kota Tinggi District Kota Tinggi District is a district in the Malaysian state of Johor. It is the largest district in the state with an area of . The population was 187,824 in 2010. The principal town is Kota Tinggi. Geography The district has an area of 3,482&nbs ...

Johor Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan ...

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

. It faces the

South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Phil ...

and has a width of approximately 12 km. The bay is situated about 28 km northeast of the town of

Kota Tinggi Kota Tinggi is a town and capital of Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia. Kota Tinggi is also the name of the district, Kota Tinggi District, where the town is situated. Kuala Sedili or Tanjung Sedili, a small fishing town located 37 km ...

. At the northern end of the bay is the mouth of

Sedili Besar River The Sedili Besar River ( ms, Sungai Sedili Besar) is a river in Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia. Name The word ''besar'' means large. At the southern end of Teluk Mahkota bay is a smaller river known as Sungai Sedili Kechil. The word ''kec ...

, flanked on the south bank by the village of Tanjung Sedili and on the north bank by the village of Sedili Besar. At the southern end of the bay is the mouth of the smaller Sungai Sedili Kechil river and the village of Kampung Sedili Kechil. The region of the bay is also known locally as

. The bay was in colonial times known as Jason Bay or Jason's Bay, but was subsequently renamed Teluk Mahkota. The word "teluk" is the geographical term for

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...

in the

Malay language Malay (; ms, Bahasa Melayu, links=no, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , Rejang script, Rencong: ) is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spo ...

. The word "mahkota" means "crown"Collins Easy Learning English-Malay Bahasa Malaysia-Inggeris Dictionary, First edition 2005, HarperCollins Publishers. in the

and is probably a reference to

Tunku Abdul Rahman (Tunku Mahkota of Johor) Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah ( ms, ‏تونكو عبد الرحمن ڤوترا الحاج ابن سلطان عبد الحميد حليم شاه, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; 8 Febru ...

who was the "Tunku Mahkota" or

Crown Prince A crown prince or hereditary prince is the heir apparent to the throne in a royal or imperial monarchy. The female form of the title is crown princess, which may refer either to an heiress apparent or, especially in earlier times, to the wif ...

of Johor from 1961 to 1981.

References

Kota Tinggi District Landforms of Johor Bays of Malaysia {{Johor-geo-stub