On this day in History: August 7, 1947: Wood raft makes 4,300-mile voyage On this day in 1947, Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti. Heyerdahl wanted to prove his theory that prehistoric South Americans could have colonized the Polynesian islands by drifting on ocean currents Like
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:37:45 +0000
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