Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his crew arrived in Polynesia after 101 days at sea aboard the Kon-Tiki raft on this day in history, August 7, 1947. Hyderdahl, along with five crewmen (and one ...

LIMA, Peru – Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl’s Pacific Ocean crossing aboard the balsa raft Kon-Tiki, a Norwegian team is in Peru putting the final touches on a new vessel to repeat the journey. ...

OSLO, Norway – Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his balsa raft the Kon-Tiki across the Pacific Ocean to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to ...

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The story of Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic trip across the Pacific Ocean has been told before, and often. But in Kon-Tiki, the... Early in Kon-Tiki, a dramatization of Thor ...

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The Kon-Tiki expedition – when Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, five crew members, and a Spanish-speaking parrot journeyed by raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 – was inspired by his ...

OSLO, NORWAY - Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to re-create the ...

Thomas started developing the movie in 1996, at the suggestion of his friend Michael Douglas. Douglas urged him to get in touch with the Norwegian industrialist and publisher Johan Stenersen, who ...