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Gerd Vold Hurum was the person who helped Thor Heyerdahl to organzie the Kon-Tiki Expedition in the winter and spring of 1945-47 as a project manager, she was the woman behind the Kon-Tiki expedition. The expedition also carried a parrot named Lorita who drowned in the middle of the expedition.
The Kon-Tiki Museum on the Bygdøy peninsula in Oslo, Norway houses vessels and maps from the Kon-Tiki expedition, as well as a library with about 8,000 books. The Thor Heyerdahl Institute was established in 2000. Heyerdahl himself agreed to the founding of the institute and it aims to promote and continue to develop Heyerdahl's ideas and ...
Erik Hesselberg was born at Brevik in Telemark, Norway.He grew up at Larvik in Vestfold.He knew Thor Heyerdahl from his childhood years. Having graduated from his secondary school, Erik Hesselberg went on to a sailors' school and later worked as a professional sailor for five years, making several trips around the world.
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 expedition intended to follow the path of the Kon-Tiki Viracocha people and their impulse to follow the setting sun and desire to spread the seeds of civilization ever westward. Like the Virachocha I the Viracocha III was scheduled to sail from Arica, Chile, to Mangareva, in French Polynesia, and from there attempt to island-hop to Australia.
The expedition consisted of three rafts, twelve sailors and three cats. Each raft had four crewmen and one cat. Alsar required the prospective crew members to be able to navigate and be able to speak three languages. [1] Except for the captains, the nine remaining members of the expedition changed rafts periodically.
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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Kon-Tiki expedition" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of ...