Butiaba on Lake Albert, Uganda
Gordy has it -
Open House
More than just an airstrip, as it was also an Imperial Airways emergency landing stage -
3a: Butiaba « Beyond the Blue Horizon
For the railways, produce came into the port from the Congo and Southern Sudan, was the transported overland via Masindi to Masindi Port, put on a paddle steamer to Namasagali, when it eventually got onto a train - originally to Jinja, back on a boat to Kisumu, Kenya the terminus of the Uganda railway (it was originally part of Uganda). Once in Kisumu the produce went back on a train to Mombasa where it was exported.
The town died a death when the British built the rail line to Pakwach in 1964 so negating the need for the complicated link to Namasagli, which shut down in the same year. Bing Maps shows the railway line still going to Namasagali, and continuing on from Pakwach to Arua (a section which was never built)
Butiaba is currently one of the centres of Uganda oil exploration and there is talk of rebuilding the port and building another airstrip.
Bit more on the aircraft wreckage mentioned before - my clue for this was "Papa crashed here" relating to Hemmingway's 2nd aircraft crash in two days -
Palin's Travels: Butiaba, Uganda, Hemingway Adventure
