Kon-Tiki expedition
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The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named
The Kon-Tiki raft at the Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo
Thor Heyerdahl, the expedition leader, in 2000
National NC-173 radio receiver used by the expedition
A moai
Thor Heyerdahl
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Thor Heyerdahl KStJ was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.
Kon-Tiki expedition
…expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name. Heyerdahl's book on the expedition was…
Heyerdahl c. 1980
The Kon-Tiki in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway
Thor Heyerdahl, in 1955
The Hōkūleʻa, a performance-accurate replica of a Polynesian double-hulled wa'a kaulua voyaging canoe, sailed from Hawaiʻi to Tahiti against prevailing winds in 1976, partly to disprove Heyerdahl's drift hypothesis on his much more primitive and unsteerable Kon-Tiki balsa raft