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Bookmark or Share- How the Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the ...How the Voyage of the Kon-Tiki Misled the World About Navigating the Pacific. Smithsonian geographer Doug Herman explains the traditional science of traversing the ocean seas
- Kon-Tiki expedition - WikipediaThe Kon-Tiki raft at the Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo. 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 writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name.
- The Kon-Tiki Expedition - WikipediaThe Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas (Norwegian: Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen) is a 1948 book by the Norwegian writer Thor Heyerdahl. It recounts Heyerdahl's experiences with the Kon-Tiki expedition, where he travelled across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa tree raft.
- The Story of Thor Heyerdahl’s Epic Kon-Tiki Voyage - Life in NorwayThe Kon-Tiki voyage led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl was a huge success and proved beyond doubt that Polynesia could have been settled from South America. One of the great mysteries of anthropology is how Polynesia – a vast pseudo-country in the Pacific spread triangularly between Rapa Nui, Hawaii and New Zealand – came to be ...
- Kon-Tiki (2012) - IMDbWith Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgård. Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
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