Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.

* In 1969 and 1970 Thor Heyerdahl launched expeditions to cross the Atlantic in boats built from papyrus.

In 1969 and 1970, Heyerdahl built two boats from papyrus and attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco in Africa.

The adventurer Thor Heyerdahl built two boats from papyrus, Ra and Ra II, in an attempt to demonstrate that ancient African or Mediterranean people could have reached America.

* 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.

Norwegian scientist / adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, convinced that early contact between the peoples of South America and Polynesia was possible, built the raft Kon Tiki from balsa logs, and upon it he and his crew sailed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to the Polynesian Tuamotu Archipelago in 1947.

The call sign LI2B was used by Heyerdahl again in 1969 – 70, when he built a papyrus reed raft and sailed from Morocco to Barbados in an attempt to show a possible link between the civilization of ancient Egypt and the New World.

Craftsmen from Suriqui helped Thor Heyerdahl in the construction of several of his projects, such as the reed boats Ra II and Tigris, and a balloon gondola.

* 1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.

* May 17 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II, to sail the Atlantic Ocean.

The ship designs, in particular, were regarded by Heyerdahl as similar and drawn with a simple sickle – shaped lines, representing the base of the boat, with vertical lines on deck, illustrating crew or, perhaps, raised oars.

In 1969, Thor Heyerdahl invited Senkevich to sail on the Ra papyrus boat, and later on Ra II in 1970.

The Tigris was crewed by eleven men: Thor Heyerdahl ( Norway ), Norman Baker ( USA ),

Heyerdahl claimed that these people could count their ancestors who were " white-skinned " right back to the time of Tiki and Hotu Matua, when they first came sailing across the sea " from a mountainous land in the east which was scorched by the sun.

In particular, Heyerdahl obtained a radiocarbon date of 400 for a charcoal fire located in the pit that was held by the people of Easter Island to have been used as an " oven " by the " Long Ears ," which Heyerdahl's Rapa Nui sources, reciting oral tradition, identified as a white race which had ruled the island in the past ( Heyerdahl 1958 ).

Heyerdahl advanced a theory according to which the Canaries had been bases of ancient shipping between America and the Mediterranean.

Bygdøy has several museums, like the Kon-Tiki Museum, which shows all year long the legendary expeditions of Thor Heyerdahl ; the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History ( Norsk Folkemuseum ); the Viking Ship Museum ; the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the ship Fram, used by Roald Amundsen.

The Kon-Tiki Museum is named after the raft on which Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in 1947.

Heyerdahl also points to the similarities between the word Æsir and the Azeri and Ossetian peoples of the Caucasus, between the god Odin and the Caucasian language group Udi and between the god Tyr and Turkey, and between the Vanir ( a group of Norse gods ) and the word Vannic, which was for a time in the 19th and 20th centuries the name used for the Urartian language, spoken in ancient times in the area around Lake Van.

2473 Heyerdahl is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by

Fatu Hiva is also the title of a book by explorer and archaeologist Thor Heyerdahl, in which he describes his stay on the island in the 1930s.

Heyerdahl hypothesised that the Canarian pyramids formed a temporal and geographic stopping point on voyages between ancient Egypt and the Maya civilization, initiating a controversy in which historians, esoterics, archaeologists, astronomers, and those with a general interest in history took part.

The observation prompted Heyerdahl to ask Tei Tetua from whence his people had come, to which he replied " the east ":

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.

Thor Heyerdahl erroneously claimed that Redin were people coming from somewhere else, but according to Magieduruge Ibrahim Didi, a learned man from this island, it was the name which the converted Maldivians, ghairu deen ( non-Muslim ), ancestors after the general conversion to Islam.

( Thor Heyerdahl visited this island and wrote a book which is named ' Fua Mulaku ' in its German edition.

He became famous in the USSR and worldwide for his participation in the Ra Expedition, in which he sailed together with Thor Heyerdahl.

Thor Heyerdahl ( October 6, 1914, Larvik, Norway – April 18, 2002, Colla Micheri, Italy ) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a background in zoology and geography.

Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, the son of master brewer Thor Heyerdahl and his wife Alison Lyng.

Heyerdahl claimed that in Incan legend there was a sun-god named Con-Tici Viracocha who was the supreme head of the mythical fair-skinned people in Peru.

The oral history of the people of Easter Island, at least as it was documented by Heyerdahl, is completely consistent with this theory, as is the archaeological record he examined ( Heyerdahl 1958 ).

Davis says that Heyerdahl " ignored the overwhelming body of linguistic, ethnographic, and ethnobotanical evidence, augmented today by genetic and archaeological data, indicating that he was patently wrong.

Heyerdahl speculates there was an uprising of " Short Ears " against the ruling " Long Ears.

In the years that followed, Heyerdahl was often outspoken on issues of international peace and the environment.

Based on this and other published documentation, Heyerdahl proposed that Azerbaijan was the site of an ancient advanced civilization.

The controversy surrounding the Search for Odin project was in many ways typical of the relationship between Heyerdahl and the academic community.

Heyerdahl was also an active figure in Green politics.

In subsequent years, Heyerdahl was involved with many other expeditions and archaeological projects.

The voyage, organized by Torgeir Higraff and called the Tangaroa Expedition, was intended as a tribute to Heyerdahl, an effort to better understand navigation via centerboards (" quara ") as well as a means to monitor the Pacific Ocean's environment.

* The Thor Heyerdahl Institute was established in 2000.

Due to a dispute with Thor Heyerdahl, famous for his Kon-Tiki raft used in his expedition in 1947, the name was later changed to Tiki 100.