Ra (1972 film)
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Ra is a 1972 Swedish-Norwegian documentary film directed by Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl, documenting the Ra expeditions organised by Heyerdahl in 1969 and 1970, in which he and an internation
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Thor Heyerdahl
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.
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