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.
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
History of Easter Island
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Geologically one of the youngest inhabited territories on Earth, Easter Island, located in the mid-Pacific Ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated. Its inhabitants, the Rapa Nui,
Traditional Rapa Nui cultivar of sweet potato (kumara)
Ahu Tongariki near Rano Raraku, a 15-moai ahu excavated and restored in the 1990s
Motu Nui islet, part of the Birdman Cult ceremony
Eugène Eyraud converted the whole population of the island to Catholicism.