A brackish pond on the island's west end, kept connected to Madaket Harbor by the historic Madaket Ditch. The Land Bank's Long Pond Landing gives public access for fishing and small-boat launching from South Cambridge Street.
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Nantucket Land Bank
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- Long Pond's only ocean connection is the Madaket Ditch (historically Maddequet Ditch), a hand-dug canal to Madaket Harbor first cut around 1665