Jungle Navigation Company

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## Background information

### Attractions

Adventureland Treehouse
Adventure Trading Company
Jungle Cruise
Skipper Canteen
Trader Sam's
Tropical Hideaway
Tropical Imports

## Group information

### Occupation

Colonists
Cargo transport
Tourism company

### Leader(s)

Dr. Albert Falls (formerly)
Victoria Marie Falls
Alberta Falls
Board of directors

### Members

Dr. Thompson
Frank Wolff
Trader Sam
Skip Dockmonkey
Nigel Greenwater
Albert Awol
Felix Pechman XIII
Jonas Brisbane
Zaqueu

### Affiliation

See: *Clientele of the Jungle Navigation Company*
Jungle Expedition Skipper Training School
Global Broadcasting Service
AWOL Airwaves
Nah-mee's tribe
Society of Explorers and Adventurers
Elephant Safari Company
Order of the Golden Piranha
Jungle Cruise Sponsors
Disney Broadcasting Company
Jungle Air Mail Service
Air Afrique
Walt Disney Company
Congo Hunting Party
Jungle River Post Office
Adventureland Film Festival
JNC Sky Diving Club
Avis Raras
Banana Troop
Bote Crashers
Field & Co.
The Pach
Upstream Society
Ziploc

### Headquarters

Boathouse, Lost Delta, India (formerly)
Falls estate

**The Jungle Navigation Company, Ltd.** or **the** **JNC** for short also known as the **Jungle Cruise Navigational Company** or **Jungle Cruise Trading Company** is a fictional organization from the *Jungle Cruise*.

## Description

### Mission

The Jungle Navigation Company was created to transport cargo, messages and passengers throughout the different jungles of the world. Starting in 1931, the JNC also operated the, "Jungle Cruise" tours of these jungle rivers. Much of the company's operations occurred on the *Jungle Rivers of Adventureland* AKA *the Rivers of Adventure*, mystical waterways connecting jungle rivers across the world making up, "Adventureland".

The Jungle Navigation Company maintains a fleet of riverboats operated by a variety of skippers. The company has an infamous reputation for negligence, impotence and corruption. The Jungle Navigation Company is also somewhat expansive, having their hands in dining-services, radio services such as *AWOL Airwaves* & the *Global Broadcasting Service*, film productions and shopping establishments. Several members of the Jungle Navigation Company appeared to be members of troops such as Avis Raras, the Bote Crashers, the Pach, the Upstream Society, and Troop 5571 AKA "The Banana Troop".

The company's number for missing shipments was *575-208-5006* (please take not that the Jungle Navigation Company is a fictional organization and the wiki is not encouraging anyone to call this number). The company also worked off of a 1/2 Way for 1/2 Price deal in regards to its transport services.

#### Bases

* **Amazon River Base**: The Amazon River Base was one of the company's more prominent outposts. The base was located in a floodplain of the Amazon rainforest and due to frequent disasters was branded as the company's, "Most exciting outpost".
* **Calcutta**: Agents of the company were distributed in Calcutta, India where the JNC also assisted in the filming of Hollywood motion-pictures.
* **Congo base camp**: This location was a base-camp along the Congo River in the Congo Basin of Africa. The station was used by big-game hunters and the JNC in the 1930s but was often raided by gorillas.
* **Congo boathouse**: This was a boathouse located in the Congo Basin of Africa.
* **Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen**: This was the company headquarters, created from the mansion of the Falls family. In 1938, the building was turned into a restaurant by Alberta Falls.
* **Original Headquarters of the Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd.**: This was a boathouse along the river in the Lost Delta of India. The boathouse was a base for the 19th century adventures of Dr. Albert Falls and later turned into their first headquarters.
* **Porto Velho boathouse**: In the 1910s, the company had a small and ramshackle boathouse along the Amazon river in Porto Velho, Brazil. Up until 1916, this station was used to run a charlatanizeid version of the Jungle Cruise with crude mechanical animals and paid actors.
* **Tropical Hideaway**: The Jungle Navigation Company managed a small dock along an uncharted tributary on the unidentified isle of Polynesia which held the Enchanted Tiki Room.
* **Zanzibar**: Agents of the company were distributed in Zanzibar where the JNC also assisted in the filming of Hollywood motion-pictures.

#### Rivers

* **The Amazon River**:
* **Cambodia, Mekong River**:
* **Ganges River**:
* **The Lost Delta, India**:
* **The Congo River**:
* **The Nile River**: The JNC often passed by the African veldt of North Africa, a region located either in Sudan or Egypt.
* **Uncharted tributary, Polynesia**:
* **Irrawaddy River:**
* **Zambezi River**:

#### Shopping & dining

* **Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen**: The Falls family mansion and headquarters of the Jungle Navigation Company was turned into a restaurant called the, "Skipper Canteen" in 1938.
* **Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar**: The Enchanted Tiki Bar was a bar managed by the Jungle Navigation Company in a small Polynesian village.
* **Trader Sam's Gift Shop!**: Formerly the Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Gift Shop, this was an establishment along the Amazon river nearby the Amazon River Base which sold off items recovered by the company in the jungle. The shop was run by Trader Sam who also took souvenir-photographs of passing-by boats.
* **Trader Sam's Grog Grotto**: This was a bar managed by the JNC in the *Great Ceremonial House* of a Polynesian village.

### Services

#### E-Coupons

E-Coupons are a kind of coupon which up until c. 1938 were accepted as payment for Jungle Navigation Company services.

#### Film production

Jungle River Boats of the company have been used for filming materials such as movies and newsreels. The company was also seemingly responsible for the *Adventureland Film Festival* in the late 1930s, as said celebration bore the JNC logo.

#### The Jungle Cruise

The Jungle Cruise, also known as the, "World Famous Jungle Cruise" or, "World Famous Jungle Cruise Tours" was a tourism service that transported passengers on scenic tours of the Rivers of Adventure.

* **Amazonian River Fantasy**: The *Amazonian River Fantasy* was a version of the Jungle Cruise that showed tours of the Amazon river.
* **Equatorial Expeditions**: *Equatorial Expeditions* was a Jungle Cruise that passed through the Belgian-occupied Congo Basin and which stopped in the colony of Ponthierville. The service's tag-line was, "Follow the Route of the Jungle Queen", seemingly referencing a famous boat which of that name which passed the same route.
* **The Jingle Cruise**: The Jingle Cruise was an annual Christmas-themed Jungle Cruise on the Rivers of Adventure which started in 1935. The tours involved dumping holiday décor in the jungles as makeshift Christmas decorations and taking guests on tours of the polluted jungles.
* **Porto Velho chapter**: Up until 1916, employee Frank Wolff ran a charlatanizeid Jungle Cruise attraction in Porto Velho, Brazil.
* **Lotus Tours**: *Lotus Tours* was a Jungle Cruise service that took guests on tours of Malay, Burma, Siam and Cambodia in Southern Asia. The most notably feature of these tours were the *Ancient Ruins of Angkor*. In 1938, they also connected to Borneo and French Indochina (though confused on one occasion for Boston and French Lick, Indiana).
* **V.I.P. Jungle Cruises**: The V.I.P. Jungle Cruise was a variant of the Jungle Cruise accommodated to passengers of high status or connection the company and any operations they might have active in the jungle. The most notable of these was the disastrous tour aboard the *Kwango Kate* in 1938.

#### Transportation

The Jungle Navigation Company offers transportation services from a small fleet of *Jungle River Boats* which they own and maintain.

## Members

### Leaders

* **Dr. Albert Falls**: Dr. Albert Falls is the founder of the Jungle Navigation Company. He was a British explorer who disappeared in 1928.
* **Alberta Falls**: Alberta Falls was president of the Jungle Navigation Company during its renaissance in the 1930s. She was raised alongside JNC skippers and her grandfather, founder Dr. Albert Falls.
* **Board**: The board was a large group of individuals who were in-charge of the company. It is implied that Trader Sam might have been a member of said board albeit an often absentee one.
* **Commodore Hibler**: One of the company's duty managers in the Amazon River Base.
* **Dr. Thompson**: One of the company's duty managers in the Amazon River Base.
* **Victoria Marie Falls**: Victoria Marie Falls was the wife of Dr. Albert Falls who often ran the company in his absence.

### Employees

#### Assorted

Those who had positions in the company notably outside of just working as a skipper.

* **Albert Awol**: "Skipper" Albert Awol was the broadcaster of *AWOL Airwaves*, a broadcasting service which provided entertainment and communication to skippers.
* **Captain W. Winter**: Worked at the JNC's Central Office where he received applications for new potential employees.
* **E. L. O'Fevre**: E. L. O'Fevre was employee of the month in 1938, before dying of illness.
* **Joss**: One of the employees who loaded cargo on the docks of the Lost Delta boathouse.
* **J.T. Sharp**: J.T. Sharp was a travel-agent in London who arranged for Jungle Cruises.
* **Nigel Greenwater**: Nigel Greenwater ran the *Global Broadcasting Service*, an International radio broadcast for skippers.
* **Nigel R. Prescott III**: The company's botanist.
* **Performers**: These were actors hired by the company in Porto Velho to act as offensive caricatures of the local Puka Michuna tribe, feigning attacking the boats as, "Headhunters".
* **Professor Harper Goff**: Professor Harper Goff was a tattoo-artist and banjo-instructor who was a member of the company since at-least 1924. In the 1930s, he was active in the Adventureland Bazaar and the Jungle Navigation Company's, "Dock 54".
* **Skip Dockmonkey**: Skip Dockmonkey was a reckless and inept jokester who started as a skipper before moving onto being a worker at the Skipper Canteen and later manager of the *Trader Sam's* bars.
* **Skipper Bill**: Bill was the head of plant-studies at the JNC's headquarters and skipper of the *Congo Connie*.
* **Skipper Harper**: Skipper Harper was a cartographer who worked in the JNC headquarters. He might be connected to or pseudodymous with the afformentioned Professor Harper Goff.
* **Skipper Marc**: Marc was the head of animal-studies at JNC headquarters.
* **Skipper Missy**: Skipper Missy was the sister of Albert Awol and an announcer for the Global Broadcasting Service in 1938.
* **Trader Sam**: Trader Sam is an ancient magic-user from the Amazon rainforest who was affiliated with the company. He was acquainted with Dr. Albert Falls and friends with Alberta Falls, having been put in charge of the company's lost & found (which he turned into a gift shop) and two, "Trader Sam's" bars managed by the company.
* **Walt Disney**: Walt Disney or, "W.E.D." was an American businessman who approved company boats in the 1920s, was considered a member of the *Temple* and *DeNyle* families which assisted in the company's founding, might have piloted the Congo Queen, and presumably owned the *Disney Broadcasting Company* which broadcast AWOL Airwaves.
* **Zaqueu**: Zaqueu worked for Frank Wolff at his chapter of the Jungle Navigation Company when he was a boy in the 1910s.

#### Skippers

The Jungle Navigation Company employed a large quantity of, "Skippers" or, "Skips" to pilot their boats. The vast-majority of these individuals were referred to with the title, "Skipper" before their names.

* **Babs**:
* **Cap'n Kevin**: Kevin was a celebrated skipper in the 1920s who had a close relationship with Trader Sam.
* **Captain Daniel**:
* **Col. Brody**:
* **Felix Pechman XIII**: Felix Pechman XIII was a boatsman from Silver Springs, Florida who joined the company around 1938 where he was colloquially known as, "The new guy" and purportedly plagued by a paranormal degree of bad luck. In 1938, he piloted a V.I.P. Jungle Cruise tour aboard the *Kwango Kate* only for it to be wrecked along the African veldt, marooning himself and his passengers.
* **Frank Wolff**: Frank Wolff was a skipper for the company in the 1910s who ran a charlatanizeid Jungle Cruise attraction aboard his boat *La Quila* in Porto Velho, Brazil. Frank was secretly a cursed, nigh-immortal conquistador who was bound to the Amazon river due to an ancient curse until being freed in 1916. After gaining his freedom, he created a new map of the *Rivers of Adventure* for Dr. Albert Falls.
* **Jack**: Former skipper of the Mekong Maiden.
* **Jay Friesner**: Friesner was a member of the dock crew, deemed, "Skipper of the Year" in 1938.
* **Jonas Brisbane**: Jonas Brisbane was an amoral skipper who grave-robbed Indigenous tombs and captured rare creatures in the Amazon rainforest before being punished by an angered witch-doctor for his crimes.
* **Kungaloosh Kate**:
* **Prof. Robert**:
* **Richard Reyes:** Reyes was a skipper and employee of the Skipper Canteen where he was named, "Skipper of the Year" in 1938.
* **Skipper Adam**: Adam was a Jungle Navigation Company skipper at the Amazon River Base in 1938. He was known for (attempting to) maintain plants.
* **Skipper Alex:** A recipient of the Dr. Albert Falls Memorial Award for Jungle Excellence.
* **Skipper Alice:**
* **Skipper Amy:** Recipient of the Dr. Albert Falls Memorial Award for Jungle Excellence Official Honorary Skippers.
* **Skipper April**:
* **Skipper Ben**: Skipper Ben was a skipper at the Amazon River Base in 1938 and had a New year's resolution to, "Eat more".
* **Skipper Beth**:
* **Skipper Brennan**: This was a skipper involved in the Disney film, "The Jungle Cruise".
* **Skipper Brian**: Skipper Brian was a skipper at the Amazon River Base in 1938. He considered himself to be unfunny and was recipricantt of, "The Dr. Albert Falls Award for Jungle Excellence Official Honorary Skippers".
* **Skipper Carl**: Carl was a skipper who got married in 1938. While originally he planned his bachelor party to be in the African elephant staging-grounds, it was instead moved to the Indian elephant bathing pool.
* **Skipper Casey**: Skipper Casey was a skipper in 1938 who worked in the Amazon River Base. They had a fear of the company's customers though they wished to overcome this.
* **Skipper Claire:**
* **Skipper Dan**: Skipper Dan was a frequently alluded to skipper, who may have been a failed actor/comedian.
* **Skipper Dave**: Skipper Dave was a JNC skipper who was also a correspondent for the colonial newspaper, *The Daily Gnus*. Around the summer of 1936, he was amongst the JNC skippers competing to find, "Adventureland's Funniest Joke".
* **Skipper Dottie**: A woman in 1933 who performed repairs on boats such as the Amazon Annie.
* **Skipper Doug**: Skipper Doug was considered the resident gourmet of the Jungle Navigation Company.
* **Skipper George**:
* **Skipper Gerry**:
* **Skipper Greg**: Greg was a skipper in 1934 who provoked a swan resulting in, "The Bird Incident of 1934".
* **Skipper Jason**:
* **Skipper Joe**: Skipper Joe was victor of the 1935, "K.P. Rafferty All-Skipper Pun Championship".
* **Skipper John**: Skipper John was an eccentric skipper who worked for the **Jungle Navigation Company** in the early half of the 20th century. He is a fictional counterpart to the real-world John Lasseter.
* **Skipper Jennifer**: A woman skipper and clown who worked in 1933.
* **Skipper Joe**: Skipper Joe was victor of the 1935, "K.P. Rafferty All-Skipper Pun Championship".
* **Skipper Karl**: Karl was once named, "Rookie of the Year".
* **Skipper Kaz**: Kaz was victor of the, "Smiley's Chili Croc Cookoff" with their dish, “3 Bean Ginger Delight".
* **Skipper Leilani**: A skipper who won the 3rd annual *All River Canoe Race* in 1937.
* **Skipper Lisa**: Skipper Lisa was a JNC skipper at the Amazon River Base in 1938.
* **Skipper Marge**: Marge was a black woman skipper who repaired engines in 1937.
* **Skipper Mary Kate**: Mary Kate was a skipper at the Amazon River Base in 1938. She had a low, "Passenger Return Rate" and had a New Year's resolution about wanting to improve it to 75%.
* **Skipper Miquel**: Skipper Miquel worked for the *Jungle Air Mail Service* with birds such as Amelia, Wiley and Flash in 1935.
* **Skipper Pam**:
* **Skipper Phil**: A skipper in 1937 who created models of airplanes.
* **Skipper Ron**: Skipper Ron was a skipper at the Amazon River Base in 1938.
* **Skipper Sammy**:
* **Skipper Selena**:
* **Skipper Shane**:
* **Skipper Shaun**: Shaun was winner of the 1937 *Adventureland Film Festival* with his film, "A Bigger Bote". In 1935, he moved to Hollywood and attempted to pitch a Jungle Cruise motion picture.
* **Skipper Shawn:**
* **Skipper Shelly**: A skipper who won the 3rd annual *All River Canoe Race* in 1937.
* **Skipper Steve:**
* **Skipper Will**: A skipper who illustrated menus for the Skipper Canteen.
* **Skipper Winston**: Creator of the JNC's first-joke.
* **Skipper Zander**: Zander was a skipper at the Amazon River Base in 1938. He had quit school but regretted this action during his career as a colonial skipper.

## History

### Background

#### Founding

The Jungle Navigation Company was founded by one Dr. Albert Falls on the April 8th of 1911. Falls had previously gone on a 13-day expedition to map the mystical *Jungle Rivers of Adventureland*, a paranormal feature connecting geographic locations from across the globe. The company was founded in assistance with four families, the Cruz family, DeNyle family, Temple family, and Lyons family. The JNC also had a connection to the *Jungle Expedition Skipper Training School*, a 19th century institute which trained skippers hired by the JNC. The skippers would become known for their incompetence, shady practices and campy-sense of humour, with their, "First Joke" having been created by one, "Skipper Winston" at an unknown point in time.

The original headquarters for the company was a boathouse in the Lost Delta of India which Falls had previously used as a base for his explorations of Adventureland. At some point, the JNC's headquarters became the Falls family mansion, a building which also served as a meeting-place for an aristocratic colonial guild known as the *Society of Explorers and Adventurers*. The Jungle Navigation Company would continue to expand, claiming Indigenous jungle land as their own to colonize and build outposts in while lending their services to other colonists and colonial organizations.

A frequent affiliate of the Jungle Navigation Company was one, "Trader Sam", an ancient magic-user from the Amazon rainforest. When Sam began collaborating with the company is unknown but he is known to have been acquainted with Dr. Albert Falls and brewed liquor for him named the, "Schweitzer Falls". Sam would trade goods and shrunken-heads with customers of the company, and ran the Adventureland shop, "Tropical Imports" that supplied resources to the JNC such as quinine. Sam's family would also be connected to the company, namely his cousin Chief Nah-mee who it is unknown if he is also a magic-user or not.

#### World War I

Prior to 1916, Dr. Albert Falls was made a member of the *Royal Anthropological and Diverse Adventures Society*, a misogynistic imperial society. From this society, Dr. Albert Falls lead an expedition in the Amazon rainforest to try and find the mythical Tree of Life and claim its flower-petals, "The Tears of the Moon" which could cure all maladies. This expedition was unsuccessful though he did steal a sacred arrowhead from the peaceful Indigenous Puka Michuna tribe and return it to the English society, believing it to be the key to locating the tree.

By 1916, one Frank Wolff was a skipper for the Jungle Navigation Company in the Amazon port-town of Porto Velho. Wolff was also secretly a cursed immortal conquistador named *Francisco Lopez de Heredia* who was allies with the Puka Michuna tribe and their chieftain, Sam (separate from the Trader Sam affiliated with the company). Frank also was in debt to rival Nilo Nemolato, a Porto Velho harbourmaster and proprietor of a more lucrative riverboat service.

In 1916, Wolff was recruited by sibling adventurers Lily and MacGregor Houghton on a quest for the Tree of Life after having stolen Falls' arrowhead from the *Royal Anthropological and Diverse Adventures Society*. This put them into conflict with the German Empire and Prince Joachim of Prussia who pursued them through the Amazon and recruited Wolff's old cursed conquistador allies, lead by Lope de Aguirre.

At some point, Frank Wolff gifted Dr. Albert Falls with a map of the Rivers of Adventure with the words, " To Albert, Here's to many more adventures of a life-time- F.W.".

#### Origins of the Jungle Cruise

While officially run by Albert, the company was often run by his wife and fellow adventurer Victoria Marie Falls when Albert was off globetrotting. On the March 6 of 1928, Albert was deemed businessman of the year by the *Adventureland Chamber of Commerce*. Albert disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1928 and was presumed dead. Following the doctor's disappearance, the company's presidency fell onto his granddaughter Alberta Falls who was a frequent adventuring companion of his. However, Alberta had inherited the company in the midst of the Great Depression meaning that the business' success was at a downturn.

To make profit, Alberta took the suggestion of an unknown skipper and arranged for the first, "Jungle Cruise" the October 1 of 1931. This brought financial success to the JNC and resulted in more businesses around the different outposts used by the JNC. Around November 19 in 1932, the company lost a boat known as the *Ganges Gal* in the *Lost River Delta* of Peru which they tried to cover up before being exposed by the *Daily Colonial Journal* newspaper. On the night of December 8, a skipper happened upon the base of evil grave-robber Professor Garrett Reed in his search to steal the mystical *Emerald Trinity*.

The skipper likewise stole one of the three emeralds from the Temple of Immortality, only to witness the jewels' curse killing Reed. The skipper proceeded to escape from the curse causing them to be attacked by animals, vine zombies and an undead tribe of voodoo practitioners. When their boat happened upon the Canyon of the Gods, the Fire God and Water God within reclaimed the jewels and attempted to kill the skipper for their colonial crimes, only for the skipper to narrowly escape.

#### Lost Delta Archaeological Expedition & Expansion

In the June of 1935, the JNC assisted archaeologist Indiana Jones in his excavation of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye in the Lost Delta of India. In the December of that year, they held their first inaugural, "Jingle Cruise", a Christmas-themed tour of the *Rivers of Adventure*. Their boat the *Ganges Gertie* had particular significance during this event, having been renamed to the, "Garland Gertie" for the event. The *Jingle Cruise* practice of continuing the Jingle Cruise would continue for the following years, being an event promoted by flyers and *The Daily Gnus* newspaper.

During one of these tours (potentially even the inaugural Jingle Cruise), an air shipment of holiday decoration missed its marker and was dumped in the rivers. Because of this, the jungles became polluted with Holiday decor that the Jungle Navigation Company condoned as an improvised decoration (despite the harm it caused to the local wildlife). Holiday themed pollution would appear to become a standard tradition of the Jungle Navigation Company's *Jingle Cruise* celebrations. The company's South American Indigenous affiliates, "Trader Sam" and Chief Nah-mee would make a business of these tours. Sam would sell commodities such as champagne to boat-riders for the coming *New Year's Eve* while Nah-mee assumed a Santa costume and the identity of, "Trader Sam-ta" to trade shrunken-heads as Christmas presents. JNC member Nigel Greenwater would make special Christmas broadcasts on his radio company *The Global Broadcasting Service* as a tie-in for the Jingle Cruise.

At some point by the summer of 1936, the JNC assisted affiliate Trader Sam in opening up, "Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar" on a Polynesian isle of the Pacific Ocean within the domain of Adventureland. Around 1936, the colonial business of *The Adventure Trading Company* travelled to Adventureland and employed the Jungle Navigation Company's services to transport cargo. Company skipper Skip Dockmonkey lost the trading company's shipment of Elephant Juju and was fired before enlisting the services of aspiring Adventure Trading Company members who located the cargo and got him his job back. Throughout the summer of 1936, the JNC assisted British Colonial Affairs in exploiting the excavations of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, bringing large amounts of tourists to the temple.

#### Skipper Canteen & V.I.P. Jungle Cruise

In 1937, the Adventureland Chamber of Commerce declared Alberta Falls the, "Businesswoman of the Year". In 1938, Alberta transformed the company headquarters into the *Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen*, a dining-service which would host the likes of the eccentric professor the Dreamfinder, aviator Jock Lindsey, "witch-doctor" Colonel Nedley Lostmore, and one Pamelia Perkins, president of the *Adventurers Club*. Around this time, Alberta arranged to make Trader Sam the head of the Jungle Navigation Company's lost & found. Sam however transformed this into, "Trader Sam's Gift Shop!" where he sold the recovered items.

Also in 1938, Alberta arranged for a Jungle Cruise tour lead by one Felix Pechman XIII which would transport V.I.P. guests Dr. Leonard Moss, Rosa Soto Dominguez, Dr. Kon Chunosuke and Siobhan Murphy. This tour turned to disaster with the guests being stranded along the African veldt along the Nile river. At-least one Jungle Cruise tour-boat passed the lost expedition when they were run up a tree by a black rhino but ignored them due to it being, "Too much paper-work". The fate of this expedition is unknown though the passengers seemingly survived.

#### Later history

At some point presumably around the 1930s-1950s, the Jungle Navigation Company assisted *Disney Pictures* in shooting a film called, "The Jungle Cruise" in Zanzibar and Calcutta. Along with the JNC donating their boats the Congo Queen, Amazon Belle and Ganges Gertie, the film's production involved JNC personnel such as acting roles for Skipper John, Skipper Brennan and Trader Sam and the film's director being H. Goff. This film premiered on the Sunday, July 17th of an unidentified year in the Theatre of the Stars, an open-air theatre on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, LA in California.

Around the late 1950s/early 1960s, the JNC assisted Trader Sam in opening up, "Trader Sam's Grog Grotto" in a Polynesian Village. By this point in time, Skip Dockmonkey had become the JNC manager in-charge of the Trader Sam bars. The Grog Grotto's operations continued into the 1960s if not later into the 1980s though it is unknown if the JNC lasted as long.

### Development history

#### Creation & Changes

The Jungle Navigation Company was developed for 1994/1995 update of the Jungle Cruise made to tie into the nearby *Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye*. A fictitious backstory was provided for the JNC's skippers via the since retconned *Skipper Survival Guide* where the company started the Jungle Cruise by ferrying Hollywood filmmakers. This backstory would be progressively retconned from around 2015 to 2021 and onwards, making the Falls family its central characters while shifting tonal focus onto self-referential elements and campy humour. The Falls family was the result of an improvised gag made by cast-members that Schweitzer Falls (which was named for then famous German theologist Albert Schweitzer) were actually named for a famous explorer called Dr. Albert Falls.

#### Colonialism & controversies

The fictional Jungle Navigation Company is representative of the British Empire's historic occupation and subjugation of, "Jungle regions". Several of the locations which the company occupies are places which were historically exploited by the British and Europe in general during the setting, including the Congo which considered colonial businesses to be a part of the *trinité coloniale* (French: colonial trinity). While the general portrayal of the company as being inept, negligent and corrupt is an example of *punching-down* humour against their corporate colonial affairs, the incarnation of the company perpetuated in the 2010s-2020s inconsistently glamorized and romanticized these actions.

Many removed racist elements from the Jungle Cruise also reflect this racist history such as the frequent in version of, "Headhunter territory", explorers naming landmarks after themselves being a well known historic injustice (especially with African waterfalls due to racist propagandist Sir Morton Stanley), or their deals with Trader Sam mirroring how historically shrunken heads were pressured out of Jivaroan peoples by European colonizers as souvenirs. While the 2021 refurbishment removed many of these features from the American parks, they still appear in the Asian parks. Furthermore, the 2021 refurbishment removed the racist caricatures, they also installed a more romanticized depiction of the Jungle Navigation Company and removed reference to the colonized lands having Indigenous peoples, a form of racist propaganda known as *Terra Nullius* which characterizes stolen land as having been, "Wild" and, "Uninhabited".

## Appearances

### Adventureland Treehouse

The Jungle Navigation Company and its headquarters are mentioned in a letter to the treehouse's daughter from SEA member Aya Kouame-Beauciel.

### Adventure Trading Company

In this attraction's backstory, Skip Dockmonkey lost a shipment of Elephant Jujus being delivered for the Adventure Trading Company. In the, "Elephant Juju" mission, guests must assist in tracking down the lost shipment. In the, "Piranhahaha Juju" mission, guests are given skipper handbooks to help Skip get his job at the JNC back.

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

Tourists are shown in the *Eye on the Globe* newsreel as using a jungle cruise boat to travel to the Lost Delta.

### Jungle Cruise

The Jungle Navigation Company provide the back-drop for this attraction's fictional operations.

### Magic of Disney Animation

In Minnie Mouse's Hollywood dressing-room was the poster for a film titled, "The Jungle Cruise" starring her and Mickey Mouse. The credits on the poster listed the JNC as having assisted with filming.

### Main Street Cinema

The JNC is indirectly referenced in a posting from the Disneyland Casting Agency. Said posting asks for jungle skippers to assist in Jungle Cruise services and to apply under, "T. Sam" (Trader Sam).

### Skipper Canteen

The Skipper Canteen or *Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen* is themed to being the JNC's headquarters, turned into a dining-location by Alberta Falls.

### Trader Sam's

These bars are themed to being bars run by the JNC through Trader Sam under Skip Dockmonkey. There are several letters and pieces of cargo within the bar which are addressed to Sam in addition to a photograph of the JNC board of directors. The message with this photograph of the board reads, "To our dear friend Trader Sam, we know you don't like to wear these monkey suits but the only one missing is you! Next year? Your pals at the Jungle Navigation Company".

### Tropical Hideaway

This restaurant is located nearby a JNC outpost in Polynesia.

### Tropical Imports

In the 2020s, a message was added to the side of the building reading, "Please, deposit all prams, buggies, strollers and perambulators inside. *The Jungle Navigation Company*".

## In other media

### Film

#### Jungle Cruise

Frank Wolff's company in this film is the Jungle Navigation Company. Albert Falls is also referenced as having gone on a failed expedition to locate the Tree of Life.

## Trivia

* The JNC's year of founding is the same year that imagineer Harper Goff was born.
* The JNC's logo resembles the logo of the *True-Life Adventures* films which originally inspired the Jungle Cruise. Said logo has also shown up on posters advertising the JNC's services.
* The E-Coupons mentioned at the ticket agent of the JNC's Amazon River Base is an allusion to, "E-Tickets" which were used to ride Disney attractions up until 1982.
* The aforementioned Jungle Navigation Company poster features Tarzan from the Disney film *Tarzan* (1999) in the background.
* The Jungle Navigation Company is paralleled in Kilimanjaro Safaris with the titular company *Kilimanjaro Safaris* and in Na'vi River Journey with the company Alpha Centauri Expeditions.
* The JNC was not directly referenced in the Virtual Jungle Cruise, though many of their boats did along with a sign similar to that which they used. This might imply that they were at some point connected to Wayne Szalinski's time-travel jungle river tours.

## References

1. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2021/08/photos-jungle-cruise-sign-updated-once-again-movie-props-and-amazon-river-sign-added-to-queue-at-magic-kingdom/
2. ↑ https://mickeyblog.com/2018/09/11/top-5-reasons-need-eat-skipper-canteen/
3. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/BeBeNool1MS/
4. ↑ https://allears.net/dining/photos/skipper-canteen/interior/
5. ↑ https://allears.net/2023/08/23/25-things-you-didnt-know-about-jungle-cruise-in-disney-world/wdw-2023-mk-magic-kingdom-jungle-cruise-hidden-details-secrets-34/
6. ↑ https://www.themouseforless.com/blog\_world/vegetarian-review-skipper-canteen/
7. ↑ https://tomorrowsociety.com/skipper-canteen-review/
8. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=871455081057&set=oa.1903682069948046
9. ↑ https://touringplans.com/blog/new-minnie-mouse-meet-greet-location-disneys-hollywood-studios/
10. ↑ https://foroparquesdisney.foroactivo.com/t2093-trader-sam-s-enchanted-tiki-bar-disneyland-hotel