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The qualifications for this list of Maine lakes is that the lake is located partially or entirely in Maine, named, and has a surface area of more than 10 acres (40,000 m 2). This makes it legally a great pond unless it is dammed, smaller than 10 acres (40,000 m 2 ) prior to damming, smaller than 30 acres (120,000 m 2 ) afterwards, and entirely ...
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Maine's Moosehead Lake is the largest lake wholly in New England, since Lake Champlain is located between Vermont, New York, and Quebec. A number of other Maine lakes, such as South Twin Lake, are described by Thoreau in The Maine Woods (1864).
The Fish River chain of lakes is a series of five lakes in the North Maine Woods region of northern Maine, in a tributary stream to the Fish River. [2] The lakes are an important northern Maine recreation area providing habitat for wildlife including rainbow smelt, brook trout, lake trout, and land-locked Atlantic salmon.
Messalonskee Lake is the deepest at 113 feet (34 m), and second largest of the Belgrade Lakes with similar cold water habitat to the south basin of Long Pond. [10] The north end of Messalonskee Lake overflows through Messalonskee Stream 10 miles (16 km) to the Kennebec River.
Swan Lake is the second largest lake in Waldo County, Maine. Originally known as Goose Pond, during the 19th century it came increasingly to be referred to as Swan Lake, after the town of Swanville, Maine , which before incorporation had been known as the Plantation of Swan.
It is the fifth-largest lake system in Maine, exceeded only by Moosehead Lake at 74,890 acres (303 km 2), Sebago Lake at 28,771 acres (116 km 2), Chesuncook Lake at 23,070 acres (93 km 2), and Flagstaff Lake at 20,300 acres (82 km 2). The Pemadumcook Chain of Lakes occupy 18,300 acres (74 km 2). [2]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Lakes of Maine. It includes lakes that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a container category .