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
Tuamotus
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The Tuamotu Archipelago or the Tuamotu Islands are a French Polynesian chain of just under 80 islands and atolls in the southern Pacific Ocean. They constitute the largest chain of atolls in the world
Thor Heyerdahl
…Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he drifted 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a primitive hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. The expedition was supposed to demonstrate that the legendary sun-worshiping red-haired, bearded, and white-skinned "Tiki people" from South America…
Pearl farm in the Tuamotus
Coconut palms, Takapoto
Our Lady of Peace Church (Église Notre-Dame-de-Paix de Tiputa), Rangiroa