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Cape Cods has 365 kettle ponds aging back about 10,000 to 18,000 years to the Ice age when the retreating glaciers left behind huge ice blocks which formed deep depressions on meting and freshwater kettle ponds were formed. Some of the kettle ponds described include the Wakeby and Mashpee ponds, Punch bowl and Hathaways pond.

The article provides information on several of the kettle ponds in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Kettle ponds are formed when retreating glaciers left huge blocks of heavy ice embedded in the out wash. When the ice melted, deep depressions dotted the landscape, groundwater rose to meet the craters. Kettle pond waters run clear. Most heat up to 10 to 15 degrees warmer than the Cape's bracing Atlantic surf. Kettle ponds in the area include Wakeby and Mashpee Ponds, Punch Bowl, Hathaways Pond and Scargo Lake.