kon-tiki

A short version of the famous documentary of the Kon-Tiki Expedition in 1947. Thor Heyerdahl, together with 5 friends, built a replica of an ancient Peruvian balsa-log raft and sailed from Callao, Peru, to Raroia in the Tuamotus. The film won Oscar for best documentary feature in 1951.

A collage of images and film from the Kon-Tiki Expedition, from the port city of Callao in Peru. From The Kon-Tiki Museum Archive.

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A trip to the Kon-Tiki Museum is located on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway. It houses vessels, maps and books from the Kon-Tiki expedition. Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) gained worldwide fame when he crossed the Pacific Ocean on the balsawood raft Kon-Tiki in 1947.

Today in History.... The Kon-Tiki Museum opened its doors on May 15th, 1950. The Kon-Tiki Museum opened its doors on May 15th, 1950, dedicated to the Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947. Knut Haugland and Gerd Vold Hurum were both instrumental in convincing Thor Heyerdahl to see the raft as a...

it's gone now - but it was really something in its day! Anyone ever been??

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. Kon-Tiki is...

Olav Heyerdahl had heard the stories of his grandfather, of how he crossed the Pacific in 1947 on a primitive tiny raft called the Kon-Tiki was the name of a tiny balsa-wood raft, constructed by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. IN THEATRES APRIL 2017 In 1947, the world is gripped with...

The YouTube description.... Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Norwegian-Swedish scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl, to make a 101-day journey from South America to the Polynesian Islands. The purpose of the expedition was to prove Heyerdahl's theory that the Polynesian Islands...

Title: Kon-Tiki Tagline: The Amazing Adventure Of Six Men On A Raft Across The Pacific! True! Thrilling! Genre: Documentary Director: Thor Heyerdahl Cast: Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg, Knut Haugland, Torstein Raaby, Bengt Danielsson, Ben Grauer Release...