Long Gull Pond is a 7.0 kilometres (4 mi)-long lake located in the western part of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Route 460 runs along its southern shore, connecting Stephenville and Stephenville Crossing.
This section of Route 460, called the Hanson Memorial Highway, was constructed during the 1950s by the United States Army Corps of Engineers who were stationed at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base. The highway made the lake more accessible and it has become a popular recreation area for Stephenville. The lake was once stocked with fish by the Stephenville Rod and Gun Club.
In recent years, Gull Pond has become a year round residence for many retirees. This transformation has led to conflicts between the club members and the Town of Stepenville over fire protection and taxes.
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Gull Pond cliffs 2002
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Hanson Highway leading to LGP
Famous quotes containing the words long, gull and/or pond:
“It is the human season on this sterile air
Do words outcarry breath the sound goes on and on.
I hear a dead man’s cry from autumn long since gone.
I cry to you beyond upon his bitter air.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
“She that but little patience knew,
From childhood on, had now so much
A grey gull lost its fear and flew
Down to her cell and there alit,
And there endured her fingers’ touch
And from her fingers ate its bit.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“In the right stage of the weather a pond fires its evening gun with great regularity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)