This page is dedicated to listing the characters and organizations referenced as enlisting the services of the Jungle Navigation Company. This particularly references their cargo transport and passenger services across the world and along the Rivers of Adventure, rather than shops or restaurants managed or owned by the company. This will include those mentioned on cargo such as that found in the Jungle Cruise, Tropical Hideaway, and Skipper Canteen, those mentioned on letters being transferred by the company at Trader Sam's, and other characters referenced as enlisting their services.
Chief Nah-mee or Chief Namee was the chieftain of a tribe in the Amazon rainforest. Nah-mee was allied with the Jungle Navigation Company during their subjugation of the Amazon and was cousins with JNC employee, "Trader Sam" whom he used the JNC to send cargo to.
Dr. Kon Chunosuke was a Japanese entomologist and member of the Society of Explorers and Adventurers. He was part of a Jungle Cruise V.I.P. tour in 1938 aboard the Kwango Kate where he intended to study the rare Myrmecoleon, only to be stranded in the African veldt after the boat wrecked.
Dr. Leonard Moss was a botanist from Nova Scotia, Canada who was part of the 1938 V.I.P. Jungle Cruise aboard the Kwango Kate. While intending to use the tour as a means of studying and collecting exotic man-eating plants, he was stranded in the African veldt when the boat wrecked.
Lily Houghton was a British explorer and scientist in the 1910s who enlisted the Jungle Navigation Company's services in 1916 to take her through the Amazon rainforest in pursuit of the mystical Tears of the Moon tree. Aboard the boat La Quila, she would have a romance with Jungle Navigation Company skipper, Frank Wolff.
The guests are the rolls which riders assume when riding the Jungle Cruise, representing passengers of the Jungle Navigation Company around the winter of 1938 (though previous versions had different years).
MacGregor Houghton was a British explorer who was brother of Lily Houghton and accompanied her on her quest to find the Tears of the Moon aboard the La Quila in 1916.
Jungle Cruise (film)
MacGregor's book, "My Interests Happily Lay Elsewhere" is in the Jungle Navigation Company's Amazon River Base.
These were tourists of Frank Wolff's chapter of the JNC in 1916 whom Frank used charlatanism to cheat and exploit. The group consisted of multiple wealthy tourists who for some inexplicable reason, all travelled to the obscure Brazilian port town in the midst of World War I for an otherwise unappealing vacation.
Jungle Cruise (film)
The group is included in the film as an attempt at meta-humour regarding the original Jungle Cruise attraction.
Rosa Soto Dominguez was a Mexican partner who was close with Jungle Navigation Company president, Alberta Falls. In 1938, she was part of the Jungle Cruise's V.I.P. tour aboard the Kwango Kate before being marooned in the African veldt of North Africa.
Jungle Cruise (attraction)
A painting made by Rosa of Alberta outside Inspiration Falls in the Amazon is hung in the Skipper Canteen.
Rosa's name is a tribute to Ron Dominguez and the Dominguez family who owned the property which became Disneyland and who are also given tribute in the Jungle Cruise via the Dominguez tree along the boathouse.
Siobhan Murphy was a cousin of the Falls family which founded and ran the Jungle Navigation Company. Siobhan was an eccentric ornithologist who in 1938 became part of the V.I.P. tour aboard the Kwango Kate. While passing the African veldt, her enthusiasm for an oxpecker distracted the boat's pilot Felix Pechman XIII resulting in the Kate being wrecked in the nearby Hippo pool as the passengers and skipper were marooned in the veldt.
An English knight and colonist who used the JNC's services for cargo such as Earl Grey tea, quinine, mosquito netting and piano wire.
Jungle Cruise (attraction)
Jungle Cruise: Wildlife Expeditions
The name Reginald has also sometimes been used for the Lost Safari leader.
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Cape Girardeau Mercantile
As Cape Girardeau is a Missouri location, this might be a tribute to Walt Disney's home state and/or Missouri being an inspiration for Main Street, U.S.A..
A group of big game hunters who were active in the Congo Basin around 1936 where they used the company's Congo base camp. The party's base was ransacked by a troop of gorillas.
Jungle Exploration Company
M. Jones Cartographers Ltd.
This was a cartography company based out of the isle Borra Danno.
Charlie Allnut was a boatsman who worked in German East-Africa in the 1910s. He used the JNC to deliver messages to his contact, "Trader Sam" while having some relation to the company as a skipper.
Indiana Jones was a world-renowned archaeologist. From 1935 to 1936, he was assisted by the Jungle Navigation Company in excavating the Temple of the Forbidden Eye in the Lost Delta of India. On another occasion, the JNC helped him locate artifacts lost on the Rivers of Adventure including his father's umbrella, the headdress of late-enemy Mola Ram, and a crate from the U.S. government's Hangar 51 containing the Ark of the Covenant.
Jock Lindsey was the aviator to Indiana Jones. He was a customer of the Skipper Canteen in the 1930s and in the 1940s, a skipper took him to see the Backside of Water at Schweitzer Falls.
On a map in his bar, Jock has the Eye of Mara over the Lost Delta, indicating he likely visited the region. In the bar's lost & found is a map of the Temple of the Forbidden Eye and shrunken-head next to umbrellas, referencing Chief Nah-mee.
Marcus Brody was a historian, archaeologist, museum curator and dean of Marshall College in the 1930s. He used the Jungle Navigation Company to send messages to Trader Sam. Shipments of distilled water from Schweitzer Falls were also shipped to the Marshall College.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Brody is mentioned by Nigel Greenwater in Disneyland's Jungle Cruise as giving a lecture on the Temple of the Forbidden Eye to the Royal Anthropological Society. Said society might also be connected to the Royal Anthropological and Diverse Adventures Society from the Jungle Cruise film.
Marshall College is mentioned in the Skipper Canteen as enlisting Prof. D. Marley and receiving a shipment of water from Schweitzer Falls.
Merlin Jones was a young genius aspiring scientist at Midvale College. He is references as a client via the business M. Jones Cartographers Ltd. of Bora Danno.
Rick Blaine was a freedom-fighter turned proprietor of Rick's Cafe Americaine in Casablanca, Morocco during the 1940s. He used the Jungle Navigation Company to send post-cards to his friend, Trader Sam.
Club Obi Wan was a nightclub in Shanghai run by the evil crime-lord, Lao Che. The Jungle Navigation Company transported cargo from the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, to their boathouse, to the club's address.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Cargo addressed to the club can be found in both the Jungle Cruise and Temple of the Forbidden Eye.
The name of the club is an allusion to Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars (1977).
Emil Bleehall, Jr. was a member of the Adventurers Club following the New Year's Eve of 1937. He used the Jungle Navigation Company for cargo shipments to his address in Sandusky, Ohio.
Adventurers Club
Bleehall once left his canteen in the possession of Trader Sam while he was out adventuring.
Prof. Fletcher Hodges
Professor Fletcher Hodges was curator for the Adventurers Club's headquarters on Pleasure Island in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. He used the Jungle Navigation Company to send a message to Trader Sam, warning him of the, " Giant Piranha Butterfly".
Hathaway Browne was a womanizing aviator and member of the Adventurers Club in the 1930s. He used the Jungle Navigation Company on occasion to contact his friend, Trader Sam.
Adventurers Club
Browne's plane is seen crashed in the Congo in the Magic Kingdom's Jungle Cruise.
José was a talking, enchanted macaw who was one of the four masters-of-ceremony of the Enchanted Tiki Room. He received cargo from the Jungle Navigation Company.
Pamelia Perkins was president of the Adventurers Club in the 1930s. She used the Jungle Navigation Company to have cargo shipped to her at her office in Pleasure Island, Florida.
Adventurers Club
Pamelia Perkins is identified as a past patron of the Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen where she is the namesake of her favourite dish, "Perkins Thai Noodles".
Perkins was friends and affiliates with Trader Sam, even entrusting him with items from the Adventurers Club's headquarters.
Rosita was an enchanted talking cockatoo form the Enchanted Tiki Room. In the 1930s, she used the Jungle Navigation Company for her solo performance career, transporting her to different venues for her musical and comedy routines.
Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
Rosita appeared in the Jungle Cruise film as the pet of Nilo Nemolato in 1916 Porto Velho, Brazil.
Rosita has been mentioned in both Trader Sam's bars, the Adventure Trading Company, and the Skipper Canteen.
Samantha Sterling was a woman adventurer and member of the Adventurers Club in the 1930s. She used the Jungle Navigation Company to send messages to Trader Sam.
The Adventure Trading Company was a colonial trading-company which predominately traded, "Jujus", pendants representing different virtues. The Jungle Navigation Company would be affiliated with the company and traded jujus for them.
Bengal Barbecue was a restaurant in the Wilds of Adventureland known for serving the meats of exotic and endangered animals such as cobras, rhinos and tigers.
British Colonia Affairs was an extension of the British Empire which subjugated India and operated out of Delhi.
Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye
Crew of The Miss Tilly
The Miss Tilly was a shrimping-vessel caught in a large hurricane in the 1950s. The boat was later impaled atop the volcano Mount Mayday in the tropics of Placid Palms where it would remain for decades. The crew of the Miss Tilly used the Jungle Navigation Company to deliver a post-card to Trader Sam who was present at the hurricane.
Hightower Industries was an American business belonging to the sinister Hightower family which included the evil colonial explorer Harrison Hightower III as well as serial-killer Constance Hatchaway.
This was an archaeological expedition which lasted from 1935 to 1936, excavating the Temple of the Forbidden Eye in the Lost Delta of India. The Jungle Navigation Company assisted them in their excavation of the temple.
Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple of the Forbidden Eye
The Society of Explorers and Adventurers is a 16th century Italian secret-society composed predominately of colonial explorers and aristocrats.
Fortress Explorations
Jungle Cruise characters Dr. Albert Falls, Dr. Kon Chunosuke and Professor Garrett Reed were all members of S.E.A. along with various tie-in and crossover characters in Jungle Cruise properties.
Frank Wolff's map of the Rivers of Adventure featured the S.E.A. crest as its compass.
Tropical Imports
Tropical Imports was an establishment in the 1930s which was run by Trader Sam.
Trader Sam is a character originating from the Jungle Cruise.
Up until 2021, a mural in Disneyland's Jungle Cruise advertised Tropical Imports.
Westward Ho Trading Company
The Westward Ho Trading Company was a trading-company active in the American west (most likely in Arizona) since at-least the 19th century. The Jungle Navigation Company transported rare juju from the Adventure Trading Company for them.
The Jungle Navigation Company's affiliation to the Trading Company is a reference to the interactive-attraction Legends of Frontierland: Gold Rush!, the sister attraction to Adventure Trading Company which used Westward Ho Trading Co. as its main base.
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Prof. Marley
Professor Marley was a teacher at Marshall College whom the Jungle Navigation Company sent water from Schweitzer Falls.
Walt Disney Pictures is a film studio based out of Burbank, California. The Jungle Navigation Company assisted them in filming a movie titled, "The Jungle Cruise" in Zanzibar and Calcutta starring Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
An alternate-history depiction of studio-founder Walt Disney is featured frequently in the Jungle Cruise's mythos such having worked for the JNC in the 1920s, befriended Trader Sam in the 1940s, or platformed the Disney Broadcasting Company which broadcast AWOL Airwaves.
The fictional Jungle Cruise film had JNC staff in its cast and was directed by JNC member, H. Goff.
The Walt Disney Company started and owns the Jungle Cruise property.
In real-life, Walt Disney Pictures created the 2021 Jungle Cruise film.
While not the form of clients listed on this page, the Skipper Canteen and Trader Sam's bars include notable characters who used the company's dining services.
