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

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

The great impediment to the navigation of the Congo had lain in the continuous rapids which made the river impassable from Stanley Pool for three hundred miles down to Boma at the mouth.

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

I was invited to hasten on to Stanley Pool.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

It deals with Ngalyema, who was chief of the Stanley Pool District in the early eighties.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick