Ellis Pond, also known as Silver Lake and Roxbury Pond, is a

glacial lake A glacial lake is a body of water with origins from glacier activity. They are formed when a glacier erodes the land and then melts, filling the depression created by the glacier. Formation Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,0 ...

Roxbury, Maine Roxbury is a town in Oxford County, Maine, Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 361 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Ellis Pond is popular with recreational fishermen. History Originally known as Township No. 7, ...

and partially in

Byron, Maine Byron is a town in Oxford County, Maine, United States. The population was 103 at the 2020 census. Home to Coos Canyon on the Swift River, Byron includes the village of Houghton. History It was settled as Township No. 8, then incorporated on ...

, United States.Ellis Pond
. Government of Maine. It contains two islands, the bigger being named French Island, and the smaller unnamed. It also contains three small islets, the biggest of which is informally referred to as Loony Island, due to

loon Loons (North American English) or divers (British / Irish English) are a group of aquatic birds found in much of North America and northern Eurasia. All living species of loons are members of the genus ''Gavia'', family Gaviidae and order Gavi ...

s nesting there. It is fed by the Garland Brook and various smaller, unnamed streams, brooks, and rivers, and is drained by Ellis River. In 1940, the pond was estimated to be in size, and in 1869, it was estimated to be in size.

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