A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands many of them have been sites of religious worship, such as Mont Saint Michel with its Benedictine Abbey. Tidal islands are also commonly the sites of fortresses because of their natural fortifications.
The former Bennelong Island in Sydney, Australia was developed into Bennelong Point and is now the location of the Sydney Opera House.
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Tidal Islands of the World
Canada
France
Germany/Denmark
- The Halligen in the North Frisian Islands, Germany/Denmark
- Mandø Island - on Denmark's western coast
Ireland
- Omey Island in Connemara, County Galway, Connacht
- Coney Island near Rosses Point, County Sligo
United Kingdom
- Baleshare in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
- Brough of Birsay in Orkney, Scotland
- Burgh Island in Devon, England
- Chapel Island in Cumbria, England
- Cramond Island, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Davaar Island near Campbeltown, on the Kintyre peninsula, Scotland
- Erraid off the Isle of Mull in Scotland
- Gugh in the Isles of Scilly, Great Britain
- Hilbre Island in the River Dee estuary, between North Wales and the English Wirral
- Llanddwyn Island off Anglesey in North Wales
- Lindisfarne in Northumberland, England
- Northey Island in Essex, England
- Oronsay in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
- Osea Island in Essex, England
- Rough Island opposite Rockcliffe, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
- Sheep Island in Cumbria, England
- St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, Great Britain
- St Mary's Island in North Tyneside, England
- Sully Island in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
- Worm's Head at the end of Gower, Wales
Crown Dependencies
- Lihou in Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands
USA
- Bar Island in Maine, U.S.A.
- High Island, New York
- Long Point Island, Harpswell, Maine, U.S.A.
- Cana Island Lighthouse in Wisconsin, U.S.A.
- Battery Point Light in California, U.S.A.
- Camano Island in Puget Sound of Washington, U.S.A., since earth filled
Asia
- Jindo Island and Modo Island in southwest South Korea
See also
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