Yeah, it does. You saw it at low tide; in a few hours all but the highest parts of it get flooded by the sea.

My territory spans three miles in every direction, and everything in it is mine. Yourself included. [And he's fought hard against other, young solitary males to keep his territory that big. The only thing that could throw him out would be a more experienced one, or a group of females (but they probably wouldn't be interested in evicting him, he'd evict himself).]