Wolff Adventureland Expedition

Wolff Adventureland Expedition
Wolff's map created from the expedition
Performers	Frank Wolff Jungle Navigation Company
Date	After 1916; before 1928
Location	Rivers of Adventure, Heart of Adventureland, Adventureland Amazon rainforest Congo Basin African veldt Shir Lee Temple, Cambodia

The Wolff Adventureland Expedition is the conjectural name for a fictional event from the Jungle Cruise attraction.

History

Background

Beginning

This expedition was arranged in an unknown year between 1916 and 1928 along the Rivers of Adventure, a supernatural waterway that connected jungles across the world into, "Adventureland". The head (or at-least most prominent member) of the journey was one Frank Wolff, a skipper of the colonial Jungle Navigation Company. While the JNC had been using the Rivers of Adventure since their founding, the route of the Rivers of Adventure being passed through by Wolff were yet undocumented.

Amazon rainforest

The expedition embarked from the Amazon floodplain of the Amazon rainforest, seemingly from the Jungle Navigation Company's boathouse in the region. While in the Amazon, he likely encountered man-eating piranhas and documented the shop and canoe rental-service Boats & Baits.

Africa

Using the Rivers of Adventure, Frank would have entered Gorilla Country in the Congo Basin before entering the Nile river in North Africa (either in Egypt or Sudan) passed the African Veldt, Chimp Country and the backside of Schweitzer Falls where he illustrated the native wildlife.

Cambodia

After this he entered the Mekong river and a flooded Cambodian shrine dedicated to Khmer king Jayavarman VII which connected to a secret bathing pool used by Indian elephants. Following this, Frank used the Rivers of Adventure to travel back to the Amazon rainforest where he completed his expedition.

Aftermath

Frank documented his voyage on a Jungle Navigation Company map which he gifted it to JNC founder Dr. Albert Falls with the words, " To Albert, Here's to many more adventures of a life-time- F.W." and, "Here is adventure, here is romance, here is mystery". This map would be passed through the Falls family and modified over the years to unknown extents for company usage. The map was also adorned with the crest for the Society of Explorers and Adventurers, a secret-society of colonizers and aristocrats which Falls was a member of.

In the 1930s, Doctor Falls' granddaughter Alberta Falls was president of the JNC and inherited the map. Prior to around the summer of 1936, Alberta modified the map for skipper usage in her, "Jungle Cruise" tourism service. A large mural of the map was placed in the company's Amazon River Base which also contained Frank Wolff's hat and a map he used in 1916 to find Lagrimas de Cristal.

Development history

The event was created for a 2021 refurbishment of the Jungle Cruise attraction. The character Frank Wolff was Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's character from the Jungle Cruise film which came out the same year as one of many elements tying the stories of the ride and film together.

Appearances

Jungle Cruise

The map for this expedition can be found in the Amazon River Base with modifications from Alberta Falls. In Disneyland's Jungle Cruise, the map is visible aboard the Mekong Maiden, being held by a chimpanzee.

Other connections

Jungle Cruise (film)

Frank Wolff is a character from the Jungle Cruise film.

Trivia

• On Frank's map of the Rivers of Adventure, he quotes Walt Disney's words regarding Adventureland. These words are repeated in their original form on the Disneyland version of the map which was made by Dr. Albert Falls and assembled by Alberta.
• While not referenced on the map, Frank would have had to passed through Headhunter Territory in North Africa.

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