Ubundu, formerly known under the colonial names of Ponthierville and Ponthierstad is a real-world city referenced in the Jungle Cruise.
Description[]
Ubundu is a colony-turned-city in the Tshopo Province of the Congo. The settlement is located on the Lualaba River of the upper Congo river
Points of interest[]
- Boyoma Falls:
- Monastery:
- Portage railway:
History[]
Real-world history[]
Appearances[]
Jungle Cruise[]
In the Amazon River Base is an illustrated map of the surrounding regions of Ponthierville in the Belgian Congo.[1] This map is for the, "Equatorial Expeditions" service of East Africa along the Congo river. The map also makes a note of Stanley Falls (modern day: Boyoma Falls) with its then-namesake the racist colonizer Sir Morton Stanley also being referenced by Albert Awol on AWOL Airwaves.
Other connections[]
The African Queen[]
Parts of the film The African Queen were filmed in Ponthierville. This included the titular boat falling off a boat, as represented by a model created by the local monastery featured on the Jungle Cruise's Congo map.[2] The map in the base shows a tramp-steamer resembling the African Queen with the advertisement of, "Follow the Route of the Jungle Queen".
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