Kon-Tiki
The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by
raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands it
was led by the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. Heyerdahl believed that
people from South America could have reached Polynesia during
pre-Columbian times He
wanted to prove that the raft itself could make the journey. Heyerdahl
and five companions sailed the raft over
6,900 km across
the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at
Raroia in
the Tuamotus on August 7, 1947. After 101 days at sea, the
Kon-Tiki crew
made a successful landfall and returned safely. The expedition had been an
unconditional success, and Heyerdahl and his crew had
demonstrated that
South American people could have journeyed to the islands of the South Pacific
by raft.
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