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* The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas ( Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen, also known as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft ), 1948
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Kon-Tiki and Expedition
Heyerdahl's book about the expedition, The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, has been translated into over 67 languages.
* American Indians in the Pacific: The Theory Behind the Kon-Tiki Expedition ( Chicago: Rand McNally, 1952 ), 821 pages.
It was published in 1948 as The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, later reprinted as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft.
* Andersson, Axel ( 2010 ) A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition ( Peter Lang ) ISBN 978-1-906165-31-4
* Kon-Tiki in Reverse: The Tahiti-Nui Expedition
Kon-Tiki and South
* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
* Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki crossed the Pacific Ocean proving the practical possibility that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed across the Pacific Ocean in a self-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands in 1947.
The Kon-Tiki expedition was inspired by old reports and drawings made by the Spanish Conquistadors of Inca rafts, and by native legends and archaeological evidence suggesting contact between South America and Polynesia.
* The Kon-Tiki ( 1947 ), a balsa raft built by Thor Heyerdahl and sailed from Peru to Polynesia to demonstrate the possibility of cultural exchange between South America and the Polynesian islands.
Kon-Tiki was the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands.
* August 7-Thor Heyerdahl's balsa-wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 4300-mile ( 6900-km ) journey across the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that prehistoric peoples could have traveled from South America.
The Tuamotus made headlines around the world in 1947, when archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl, sailing from South America, reached Raroia on his raft Kon-Tiki.
The raft, which was given the name An-Tiki in reference to the Kon-Tiki raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition from South America to the Polynesian islands, was assembled during November and December 2010.
Kon-Tiki and also
Full name and some spelling alternatives are Wiracocha, Apu Qun Tiqsi Wiraqutra and Con-Tici ( also spelled Kon-Tiki ) Viracocha.
Kon-Tiki is also the name of Heyerdahl's book and the Academy Award-winning documentary film chronicling his adventures.
A documentary motion picture about the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew's filmstrip notes and won an Academy Award in 1951.
The voyage was also chronicled in the documentary TV-series The Kon-Tiki Man: The Life and Adventures of Thor Heyerdahl, directed by Bengt Jonson.
Kon-Tiki and Pacific
After a 101-day, 4, 300 nautical mile ( 4, 948 miles or 7, 964 km ) journey across the Pacific Ocean, Kon-Tiki smashed into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947.
Kon-Tiki demonstrated that it was possible for a primitive raft to sail the Pacific with relative ease and safety, especially to the west ( with the wind ).
However, Kon-Tiki and his closest companions managed to escape and later arrived on the Pacific coast.
The Kon-Tiki Museum is named after the raft on which Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in 1947.
Kon-Tiki and I: illustrations with text, begun on the Pacific on board the raft " Kon-Tiki " and completed at " Solbakken " in Borre.
* Testing Heyerdahl's Theories about Kon-Tiki 60 Years Later: Tangaroa Pacific Voyage ( Summer 2006 ) Azerbaijan International, Vol 14: 4 ( Winter 2006 )
Their journey was almost twice as long as the Kon-Tiki expeditions of 1947 and proved that people could have travelled across the Pacific in ancient times.
Both findings were later disproved by Bengt Danielsson ( who had been a member of the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition ) in the June 1985 issue of the Pacific Islands Monthly.
Kon-Tiki and ),
* Erik Hesselberg ( 1914-1972 ), Kon-Tiki crew member, artist, author
* Thor Heyerdahl ( 1914 – 2002 ), ethnographer and adventurer, Kon-Tiki and other primitive sailing vessels
On the Bygdøy peninsula are located the Viking ship Museum, Norsk Folkemuseum ( Norwegian Museum of Cultural History ), the Maritime Museum, the Kon-Tiki Museum and the ship Fram, used by Roald Amundsen for his Antarctic expedition.
* October 6-Thor Heyerdahl ( died 2002 ), Norwegian ethnographer and explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition.
* April 18-Thor Heyerdahl ( b. 1914 ), explorer, led the Kon-Tiki expedition.
These included The Toxic Revenger ( See below ), James T. Duck ( a parody of Captain Kirk in Star Trek ), Bat-Duck ( a parody of Batman Returns, with Hamton in Robin's red-and-green as " Decoy, the Pig Hostage "), and Pluck Hyerdahl of the Kon-Ducki ( in a parody of Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki ).
Kon-Tiki and 1948
Mr. Denniston's 1948 DX-pedition was to the Bahamas and was called " Gon-Waki " ala Thor Heyerdahl's " Kon-Tiki " expedition the previous year.
Expedition and By
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By Samuel C. Mills, photographer with the James H. Simpson | Simpson Expedition.
It was during the Northern Expedition that Lin joined the Communist Party By 1927 Lin was a colonel.
By way of Meriwether Lewis Clark, Sr., he was invited as a guest of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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" By 1805, he was working for Benjamin Smith Barton on a new flora of North America, under who he studied the plants collected on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
By Lieut .- Colonel Chesney, R. A.,. F. R. S., F. R. G. S., Colonel in Asia, Commander of the Expedition.
By Colonel Chesney, R. A., D. C. L., F. R. S., Author of " The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris.
By the time it was investigated by Napoleon's Expedition in 1799 the Meidum Pyramid had its present 3 steps.
By 1872, the year of his involvement in the Yellowstone Expedition, he became a lance corporal.
" Report of an Expedition to ascertain the Position of the 141st degree of east longitude being the Boundary Line between New South Wales & South Australia ; By Order Of / His Excellency Sir George Gipps, Knight, / & c., & c., & c., / Governor ", Limited Facsimile Edition, Queensberry Hill Press ( 1976 / 1840 )
" Report of an Expedition to ascertain the Position of the 141st degree of east longitude being the Boundary Line between New South Wales & South Australia ; By Order Of / His Excellency Sir George Gipps, Knight, / & c., & c., & c., / Governor ", Limited Facsimile Edition, Queensberry Hill Press ( 1976 / 1840 )
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