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The '''Pool Malebo''' &ndash; formerly '''Stanley Pool''', also known as '''Malebo Pool''', or '''Lake Nkunda''' by local indigenous people in pre-colonial times{{cn}} &ndash; is a lake-like widening in the lower reaches of the [[Congo River]].<ref name="britannica">[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/359978/Malebo-Pool "Malebo Pool"]. [http://www.britannica.com Encyclopædia Britannica]. Accessed June 2011.</ref> The former name Stanley Pool was named after early European explorer and journalist [[Henry Morton Stanley]].