tidal land

Nearly all of its current waterfront was once tidal land, and Hong Kong International Airport was built on open ocean.

King says there is a longstanding tradition of open access to tidal land in Maine and it typically allows harvesters of species such as clams and marine worms to work the flats of the intertidal zone at Acadia.

The result was that they often did not see high ground lying out to seaward from the mangroves and mistakenly designated many areas as tidal land.

Mr. Jollie vetoed Mr. Eichelberger's site because it was on tidal land.