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Often referred to by locals as "Quonnie Pond", or "Quonnie", [1] the lagoon is bounded on the south by coastal beaches, with a narrow breach way, created by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1950s, providing access to Block Island Sound, and the Atlantic Ocean. The westernmost side of Quonnie is the site of the Weekapaug Inn, whose restaurants ...
Quonochontaug (/ ˈ k w ɑː n ə k ɒ n t ɒ ɡ / KWAH-nə-kon-tog, also known as Quonnie [2]) is a village in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. [1] It is composed of three small beach communities, and is part of Charlestown .
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Including the pond swamp north of the causeway The North and South Watuppa Ponds together represent a complete 7.5 to 8 mile body of water. The South Watuppa Pond contains 1,551 acres (1446 acres [4]), and is the third-largest naturally occurring body of water within Massachusetts. [5] The trumpet-shaped pond is about 3.0 miles long.
Dudley Pond is an 84 acre Great Pond in Cochituate, Massachusetts. The Pond is a shallow glacial landform fed primarily by rain. [1] Dudley Pond was used in the mid-1800s as a stand-by water source for Boston. At the time it was connected by pipe to the nearby and much larger Lake Cochituate. [2]
The Weymouth Back River, sometimes called Back River, is a short, primarily tidal river in Hingham and Weymouth, Massachusetts, about 10 miles (16 km) south of Boston.It arises from a number of tributaries in ponds and swamps, most notably Whitmans Pond, flows northward, and empties into Hingham Bay just south of Grape Island and Slate Island.
Jordan Pond is an oligotrophic tarn in Acadia National Park near the town of Bar Harbor, Maine. The pond covers 187 acres (76 ha) to a maximum depth of 150 feet (46 m) with a shoreline of 3.6 miles (5.8 km). [4] [3] [5] The pond was formed by the Wisconsin Ice Sheet during the last glacial period. Penobscot Mountain (1194 ft) rises to the west ...