Tidal islands
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Tidal_islands".

St Michael's Mount, Cornwall at high tide in 1900.

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, due to 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.

Tidal Islands of the World

Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (March 2008)

Canada

• Minister's Island in New Brunswick, Canada

France

• Mont Saint Michel in Normandy, France
• Île de Noirmoutier in Vendée, France

Germany/Denmark

• The Halligen in the North Frisian Islands, Germany/Denmark

Guernsey

• Lihou in Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands

Ireland

• Omey Island in Connemara, County Galway, Connacht

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
• 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 Penwith, Cornwall, Great Britain
• St Mary's Lighthouse in North Tyneside, England
• Sully Island in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
• Worm's Head at the end of Gower, Wales

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.

See also

• Island
• Islet

This geographical term article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.