![]() ![]() Heyerdahl intention was to prove this theory was valid by doing it himself. One of proposed theories was that the Polynesian people started their migration from South America in pre-Columbian times, and used prevailing westward winds to carry their rafts across the ocean. The men had successfully rafted 8000 kms or 1/5th of the way around the earths circumference.Īt the time of the expedition one of great unsolved ethnographic mysteries was how the original inhabitants of Polynesian islands were able to navigate the thousands of miles of open ocean and populate distant scattered islands with stone age technology. Many people thought it was a suicide mission, but on Augafter 101 days in the open ocean the Kon-Tiki (the name given to the raft) crashed onto a reef on the Raroia island. ![]() In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and a crew of five others sailed 4300 miles, from Peru to the Pacific islands, in a raft they had constructed from balsa wood. ![]()
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