kon-tiki

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...

If anybody is stuck home during the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown, the original 1950 version of Kon-Tiki is available on YouTube. :cool: 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...