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

From Time Magazine Archive

Stanley Pool has always been associated in my mind with one of the most picturesque episodes in Stanley's life.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

The Upper Congo starts at Stanley Pool, and as far as Stanley Falls—a distance of over one thousand miles—has a navigable current.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.

In the afternoon we cross the neck of Stanley Pool and visit Brazzaville, the capital of the French Congo.

From A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State by Dorman, Marcus Roberts Phipps

In the lower reaches of the river above Stanley Pool Casement found no gross ill-usage.

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

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