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

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)

I was invited to hasten on to Stanley Pool.

From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick

In 1898 the first railway connecting Matadi, on the Lower Congo, with Leopoldville, on the Stanley Pool, opened the great waterway as far as the Stanley Falls.

From Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Cammaerts, Emile

Just above the cataracts, which mark the sudden decline from Stanley Pool to the river current, the settlement of Leopoldville was founded on the southern bank of the stream.

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