Dead Sea towns around the lake. These towns had drinking water from the Ein Feshcha springs and other sweetwater springs in the vicinity. Intimately connected with the Judean wilderness to its northwest and west, the Dead Sea was a place of escape and refuge. The remoteness of the region attracted Greek Orthodox monks since the Byzantine era. Their monasteries, such as Saint George in Wadi Kelt and Mar Saba in the Judaean Desert, are places of pilgrimage. In the 19th century the River Jordan and the Dead Sea were explored by boat primarily by Christopher Costigan in 1835, Thomas Howard Molyneux in
Great Tenasserim River Great Tenasserim River Great Tenasserim River or the Tanintharyi River is a major river of southeastern Burma. It flows through the Tanintharyi Region, past the town of Tanintharyi before entering the sea at Myeik (Mergui). The river rises from the Tenasserim Range at an altitude of and flows into the Andaman Sea. The region formed by this river is also known as Tenasserim, Tanintharyi in Burmese, which is in a constricted coastal region in southeastern Myanmar (formerly Burma), which has border with Thailand on the east and the Andaman Sea on the west. While non-indigenous fruit trees and other traces