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- Actors making up the film version of the “Kon-Tiki” crew include Pål Sverre Hagen (second from left) who plays Thor Heyerdahl, and Anders Baasmo Christiansen (far left) who plays the disputed character of Herman Watzinger.
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The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name.
- Thor Heyerdahl
- 1948
Jan 10, 2013 · Actors making up the film version of the “Kon-Tiki” crew include Pål Sverre Hagen (second from left) who plays Thor Heyerdahl, and Anders Baasmo Christiansen (far left) who plays the disputed character of Herman Watzinger.
May 1, 2013 · "Kon-Tiki" establishes Heyerdahl (Pal Sverre Hagen) as a born risk-taker in a childhood prologue, and then jumps to Polynesia in 1937, where he develops his theory that the islands were not populated 1,500 years earlier by Asians, as was conventional wisdom, but by South Americans.
Apr 25, 2013 · Early in Kon-Tiki, a dramatization of Thor Heyerdahl's famous 1947 trans-Pacific raft expedition, the Norwegian ethnographer arrives at the New York Explorers Club trying to drum up support...
- Ian Buckwalter
Apr 14, 2024 · Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnologist and adventurer who organized and led the famous Kon-Tiki (1947) and Ra (1969–70) transoceanic scientific expeditions. Both expeditions were intended to prove the possibility of ancient transoceanic contacts between distant civilizations and cultures.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Heyerdahl is notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he drifted 8,000 km (5,000 mi) across the Pacific Ocean in a primitive hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands.
Feb 12, 2019 · The Kon-Tiki voyage led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl was a huge success and proved beyond doubt that Polynesia could have been settled from South America. One of the great mysteries of anthropology is how Polynesia – a vast pseudo-country in the Pacific spread triangularly between Rapa Nui, Hawaii and New Zealand – came to be ...
