Thor Heyerdahl’s birthday

06
October 2020

Thor Heyerdahl (06.10.1914 – 18.04.2002) was a Norwegian explorer, ethnographer and archaeologist. One of the world’s most famous explorers, he travelled on his log raft Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia covering a distance of 8,000 kilometres. His book The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas became a bestseller and raised enough funding for further projects. The successful Kon-Tiki voyage and serious scientific studies conducted 

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