Relatively small body of standing water
The Ponds
A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially.
A pond is smaller than a lake and there are no official criteria distinguishing the two, although defining a pond to be less than 5 hectares in area, less than 5 metres (16 ft) in depth and with less than 30% of its area covered by emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing the ecology of ponds from those of lakes and wetlands.
How locals move
Getting around The Ponds the local way
- Go nextThe Blue Mountains to the east The Wollemi National Park to the northeast Wisemans Ferry to the northwest
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