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

Another new factor in the situation was the completion, in 1898, of the Lower Congo Railway, which connects Boma with Stanley Pool, and so outflanks the cataracts.

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

He felt with Stanley that there could be no development of the Congo without a railway between Matadi and Stanley Pool.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

The morning after I reached Stanley Pool I boarded a special car on the historic narrow-gauge railway that runs from Kinshassa to Matadi.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

In 1895 she became the wife of Rev. S. C. Gordon, who was connected with the English Baptist Mission at Stanley Pool.

From Women of Achievement Written for the Fireside Schools by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith