The Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947, led by the Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002), successfully crossed 8,000 km (5,000 miles) of the Pacific Ocean from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands on a balsa-wood raft. #History #Kon-TikiExpedition #PacificOcean #Raft #ThorHeyerdahl #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24065-en/

October 6 is the birthday of explorer #ThorHeyerdahl who we #quote and back with a picture of a #Fallbrook #sunset. If this #quotograph speaks to you, please repost it.

On this date in 1914, Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnologist author of Kon-Tiki. The Kon-Tiki expedition established the possibility that Polynesians may have originated in South America. 10 facts about the Kon Tiki Expedition:

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The way back to the island must have been a piece of cake, as the Kon-Tiki crew proofed in 1947.

Read about the latest theory here.

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On this day in 1947, Norwegian adventurer #ThorHeyerdahl came ashore in French Polynesia.
He'd sailed all the way across the Pacific with 5 others from Peru on a 4,300-mile journey — in a homemade raft made only with balsa logs & hemp rope.
Heyerdahl's intent was to prove that pre-Columbian South Americans could have made this same journey using their own primitive seafaring technology several centuries before, allowing them to spread their culture to the remote islands of the Pacific.

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Heute vor 109 Jahren wurde Thor Heyerdahl geboren.

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Hey, ehrt Harold!

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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip Dept:
On occasion a #Hashtag you followed some time ago that subsequently shipwrecked on some uncharted desert isle will do the #ThorHeyerdahl thing and find a current
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@ArneStolzenburg Ich versteh im Leben nicht was an so einem Urlaub so toll ist :blobcatgooglyshrug:

Legebatterien hat ein shipmate auf der #Thorheyerdahl die immer genannt.

#MoinKiel Schiff is wieder da :blobcathappy:
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11/11/22, Oslo. The Ra II at the #kontikimuseet I can never work out whether the #thorheyerdahl expeditions sound like crazier ideas than Fritjof Nansen’s.