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Heyerdahl's grandson, Olav Heyerdahl, retraced his grandfather's Kon-Tiki voyage in 2006 as part of a six-member crew. The voyage, organised by Torgeir Higraff and called the Tangaroa Expedition , [ 63 ] was intended as a tribute to Heyerdahl, an effort to better understand navigation via centreboards ("guara [ 64 ] ") as well as a means to ...
Thor Heyerdahl, the expedition leader, in 2000. Kon-Tiki had a six-man crew, five of whom were Norwegian; Bengt Danielsson was Swedish. [8] A seventh member of the team handled administration from land but did not travel on the raft. Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002) was the expedition leader. He was also the author of the book of the expedition and ...
The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas (Norwegian: Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen) is a 1948 book by the Norwegian writer Thor Heyerdahl.It recounts Heyerdahl's experiences with the Kon-Tiki expedition, where he travelled across the Pacific Ocean on a balsa tree raft.
Ra (also known as The Ra Expeditions) is a 1972 documentary film directed by Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl about the expeditions organised by Thor Heyerdahl in 1969 and 1970 in attempt to cross the Atlantic on papyrus boats. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [1]
The film is the dramatized story of Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947.. While the prevailing theories of the time held that Polynesia had been settled by peoples originating from Asia, Heyerdahl, an experimental ethnographer and adventurer, sets out to prove his theory that people from South America settled the islands in pre-Columbian times.
Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary film about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark in 1950, followed by the United States in 1951.
The Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island occurred in 1955, and was led by Thor Heyerdahl. [1] For the trip, he converted a 150-foot Greenland trawler into an expedition ship. [2] Heyerdahl did not fare well in the scholarly press after his return. [3]
Tigris (boat) was a reed boat built and sailed in 1977 by Thor Heyerdahl and a crew to demonstrate the feasibility of ancient migration and trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilization. Tigris (1802 ship) was launched at Newcastle-on-Tyne as an East Indiaman.