Saloum includes flat, swampy tideland areas inland from the Saloum River delta. Tideland is a 2005 British-Canadian neo-noir fantasy horror film co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam. Suncheon Bay's wide tideland, field of reeds, and salt swamp have their natural scenes undamaged. It has of shoreline and of tideland. The Hirose River and the Gamo tideland are home to diverse wildlife. It was replaced by a Tideland Signal ML-300 acrylic optic. By 1901, about of tideland had been sold. The number of these "tideland jumpers" increased up as statehood approached. The lighthouse now has a 12-volt DC acrylic Tideland Signal optic. "Tideland" was first published in the United States in 2000 by Dufour Editions. Filmmaker Rian Johnson named "Tideland" and "The Fountain" as his favorite films of 2006. "Entertainment Weekly" critic Owen Gleiberman gave "Tideland" an "F", calling it "gruesomely awful".