Falls Adventureland Expedition

The **Falls Adventureland Expedition** is the conjectural name for a fictional 13-day expedition from the *Jungle Cruise*.

## History

### Background

#### Beginning

This expedition was launched around the summer of 1891 by British colonizer Dr. Albert Falls. This expedition planned the map the, "Jungle Rivers of Adventureland", a series of tropical waterways across the globe connected via supernatural means. Throughout the journal, Falls documented his adventures within his personal journal. Doctor Falls departed for this journey from a boathouse in the Lost Delta of India with him having obtained provisions from local vendors in the vicinity.

#### Asia

The Lost Delta's waterway was prone to high water traffic from all directions and it took Falls roughly two days to leave the Delta's river. During his time in the Delta, he found ruins belonging to the lost Temple of the Forbidden Eye. By the third day, Falls accessed the Irrawaddy River of Burma. Here, Falls found a series of flooded ruins of a shrine left by the Khmer Empire of modern Cambodia. Falls noted wanting to apply for university funding to excavate the ruins. While here, Falls had the chance to disembark and explore the ruins though made sure not to touch anything due to advice given to him be fellow British colonial explorer and dear friend, Lord Henry Mystic.

By the following day, he navigation to a sacred Indian elephant bathing pool geographically located in Cambodia but which intersected with the Ganges River of India. Falls had actually previously encountered the pool's vicinity in 1888 when he rediscovered the Khmer Shrine which it was located behind. Incidentally, both of these shrines contained statues of historic Khmer buddhist king, Jayavarman VII. While in the sacred waters, Dr. Albert Falls navigated a passage to the Ganges River of India.

#### Africa

Following the Ganges River, Falls' expedition accessed the Congo Basin where Falls documented rough waters. On the seventh day of the expedition, he found an undocumented waterfall which intersected the Congo, Zambezi and Nile Rivers. Despite the waterfall being an African feature considered effective territory of the Indigenous Umbala Tribe, Falls named the waterfall, "Schweitzer Falls" after himself. Passing by the falls, the doctor navigated his expedition to the Nile River in North Africa, presumably in the nation of Egypt or Sudan.

On the 9th day of his journal, Doctor Falls encountered the African Veldt, a region along the Nile River which is home to a diverse ecosystem of African fauna. Falls observed many of the animals along with the dangers near the water's edge. The following day, Falls left the veldt's region by quickly passing through a dangerous pool filled with aggressive hippopotamus. Between this passage and the eleventh day of the expedition, Falls observed a jungle primate refuge inhabited by reclusive chimpanzees along the water's edge. From the Nile, Falls used the Rivers of Adventure to enter the Zambezi River and pass under Schweitzer Falls where he observed the 8th wonder of the world, the *backside of water*.

#### Amazon rainforest

By the twelfth day of the expedition, Doctor Falls' expedition found their way to the Amazon river in South America's Amazon rainforest. Here, Falls found petroglyphs by the water's edge left by the Indigenous peoples of the region. These petroglyphs showed illustrations of piranhas, presumably as a warning and/or offering to the man-eating piranhas which could be found in the vicinity. The thirteenth day was around the end of the Amazon's seasonal rapids, allowing the doctor to document it as being a good locale for fishing.

#### Return

After his stint in the Amazon, Dr. Albert Falls took the Amazon river back to the Lost Delta. While making this passage, he observed an, "Uncharted tributary" which in actuality, connected to a river in Polynesia. The Falls expedition ended with Dr. Albert Falls returning to the boathouse of the Lost Delta.

#### Aftermath

On the August 12 of 1891, Falls', "Discovery" of Schweitzer Falls was made official by the *Society of Explorers and Adventurers*, a colonial guild of which the doctor was a member. The certificate for this was signed by photographer/senior-member Luana Teixeira and hung up in Dr. Falls' mansion built along the Rivers of Adventureland. In 1903, the colonial *Adventure Trading Company* awarded Dr. Albert Falls with an elephant juju to commemorate his tracking abilities in having located Schweitzer Falls. This juju was also modelled after Khmer ruins found along the rivers of Adventureland such as those which Falls encountered on his expedition.

On the April 8th of 1911, Dr. Albert Falls founded the colonial *Jungle Navigation Company* which used the rivers of Adventureland to service a large number of international clientele with the Lost Delta boathouse having served as their original headquarters before shifting to the Falls family mansion. At some point after 1916, Jungle Navigation Company boatsman Frank "Skipper" Wolff mapped a different route along the Rivers of Adventure which he gifted to Doctor Falls. On the October 1 of 1931, Falls' granddaughter Alberta Falls established the, "Jungle Cruise" tourism service along the Rivers of Adventure. Also in 1931, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Jungle Navigation Company, Alberta assembled a complete map detailing the, "Jungle Rivers of Adventureland" from her grandfather's old maps and journal entries. This map was mounted in the Lost Delta boathouse and handed out to skippers of the company for navigation.

### Development history

This fictional expedition was created for the 2021 refurbishment of the Jungle Cruise. The expedition was detailed via a new map in the queue which replaced a black-and-white map of the older incarnation of the attraction that depicted the Rivers of Adventure though not necessarily as a literal interconnected waterway.

## Appearances

### Adventure Trading Company

Schweitzer Falls' discovery is mentioned in the Daily Gnus in an article on the Elephant Juju, saying that Falls' colonial claiming of the waterfall warranted the reward due to it highlighting his tracking abilities. The newspaper however erroneously placed this event as having transpired in 1903 while in cannon it occurred in 1891.

### Jungle Cruise

The map of Dr. Albert Falls' expedition is mounted in Disneyland's Jungle Cruise. In the Magic Kingdom, this map can be seen aboard the *Kwango Kate* where it is held by a chimpanzee.

### Skipper Canteen

In the skipper canteen is the certificate for Dr. Albert Falls', "Discovery" of Schweitzer Falls signed on. the August 12 of 1891 by Luana Teixeira.

### Other connections

#### Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye

Dr. Albert Falls documented the Temple of the Forbidden Eye and applied for university funding to excavate the temple with no apparent success.

## Trivia

* Alberta's map had the words, " *Last chance for provisions: local vendors, open all season, good prices*" over Tropical Imports which might reference the shop and/or its proprietor, "Trader Sam" as having been active in the Lost Delta during Dr. Albert Falls' expedition.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/new-map-sits-at-the-entrance-to-the-queue-on-jungle-cruise-news-photo/1327854113