Thor Heyerdahl

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title: Thor Heyerdahl
text: Thor Heyerdahl KStJ was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography. 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. The expedition was supposed to demonstrate that the legendary sun-worshiping red-haired, bearded, and white-skinned "Tiki people" from South America drifted
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description: Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer (1914–2002)
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl
date created: 2002-02-05T09:02:21Z
date modified: 2024-09-10T16:49:52Z
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