Stanley Pool

British  

noun

1. Congolese name: Pool Malebo.  a lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre) and Congo-Brazzaville, formed by a widening of the River Congo. Area: 829 sq km (320 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Across Stanley Pool chugged the river ferry Congolia No. 10.

From Time Magazine Archive

Access to the greater part of the colony is obtained by ocean steamers to Matadi on the lower Congo, and thence round the falls by the Congo railway to Stanley Pool.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

"Why not call it Stanley Pool and those cliffs Dover Cliffs?" suggested Frank Pocock.

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)

The Kongo has a long stretch of navigable water, but is interrupted by rapids below Stanley Pool.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

From Stanley Pool to Upoto, a distance of 6,000 miles, they knew every landing-place on the river banks.

From The Crime of the Congo by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir