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Thor Heyerdahl (named after Thor Heyerdahl), originally named Tinka, later Marga Henning, Silke, and Minnow, was built as a freight carrying motor ship with auxiliary sails at the shipyard Smit & Zoon in Westerbroek, Netherlands, in 1930. [1] Her original homeport being Hamburg, Germany, she was used for the next 50 years as a freighter.
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.
Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, [8] Norway, the son of master brewer Thor Heyerdahl (1869–1957) and his wife, Alison Lyng (1873–1965). As a young child, Heyerdahl showed a strong interest in zoology, inspired by his mother, who had a strong interest in Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution .
Another boat in the museum is the Ra II, a vessel built of reeds according to Heyerdahl's perception of an ancient Egyptian seagoing boat. Heyerdahl sailed the Ra II from North Africa to the Caribbean after a previous attempt with the reed boat Ra failed. [3] Beneath the raft is a model of the whale shark that the crew encountered on the voyage ...
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.
The name of the vessels was derived from the Canarian deity Abora. The Abora I originated as a school project in Germany using locally grown Giant . All subsequent vessels were commissioned to boat builders from the Aymara nation living at Lake Titicaca in Bolivia; [2] the same boat builders worked already for Thor Heyerdahl.
MS Vana Tallinn (Old Tallinn in Estonian) was a cruiseferry owned by the Estonian ferry company Tallink and operated on the line between Kapellskär and Paldiski.She was built in 1974 by Aalborg Skibsværft AS, Aalborg, Denmark for DFDS as MS Dana Regina, and has sailed under the names MS Nord Estonia and MS Thor Heyerdahl.
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.