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/

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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