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    Thor Heyerdahl was a famous Norwegian explorer born in 1914 who is best known for his Kon-Tiki expedition. He had a theory that Polynesians originated from South America, which was not accepted by scientists at the time. In 1947, he set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft called Kon-Tiki to prove his theory could have traveled the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Polynesia after 101 days at sea. The success of the voyage made him famous worldwide and supported his theory of ancient contact between distant civilizations. Throughout his life, he continued experiments with traditional boat building to test theories of prehistoric transoceanic contact and migration.

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    Thor Heyerdahl was a famous Norwegian explorer born in 1914 who is best known for his Kon-Tiki expedition. He had a theory that Polynesians originated from South America, which was not accepted by scientists at the time. In 1947, he set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft called Kon-Tiki to prove his theory could have traveled the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Polynesia after 101 days at sea. The success of the voyage made him famous worldwide and supported his theory of ancient contact between distant civilizations. Throughout his life, he continued experiments with traditional boat building to test theories of prehistoric transoceanic contact and migration.

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    Thor Heyerdahl was a famous Norwegian explorer born in 1914 who is best known for his Kon-Tiki expedition. He had a theory that Polynesians originated from South America, which was not accepted by scientists at the time. In 1947, he set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft called Kon-Tiki to prove his theory could have traveled the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Polynesia after 101 days at sea. The success of the voyage made him famous worldwide and supported his theory of ancient contact between distant civilizations. Throughout his life, he continued experiments with traditional boat building to test theories of prehistoric transoceanic contact and migration.

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    THOR HEYERDAHL ( 1914-2002)

    Thor Heyerdahl is one of the most famous Norwegians ever, who accomplished many different
    things in his life, but whose name will always be intimately tied to the Kon-Tiki voyage and the
    archaeological investigations in East Polynesia.
    He was born in the small town of Larvik on the 6th of October 1914. As a young boy he was
    interested in zoology and biology and had a dream to become an explorer and travel to exotic
    countries far away. After university studies in biology and geography at Oslo university, he and
    his young wife Liv set out to live on Fatu Hiva in 1937-38. This journey had a great influence on
    the rest of his life. The important experience for Thor was that he saw that plant life, the winds
    and current , as well as traditional history, could point so that the ancestor or forerunners of
    the Polynesians could have come from the East - South America.
    Later he developed this theory in his book " American Indian in the Pacific". The scientific
    community of the time did not accept his ideas and this is the reason why he decided to prove
    this theory in real life. On the 28th of April 1947, he and his five crew members set out from
    Callao in Peru on the Kon-Tiki balsa raft which they build in a traditional style. They drifted 4300
    miles during 101 days. The voyage was a success and Heyerdahl's book about the voyage
    became a bestseller and was translated into at least 70 languages; it has sold in many millions
    of copies all around the world. Thor's film about the voyage was awarded an Oscar for best
    documentary in 1951.
    Thor Heyerdahl has always been dedicated to prove his theories concerning contact of
    prehistoric societies with the aid of traditional boat types. In 1968 he built the reed ship RA
    after models of traditional boat types in Egypt. The goal was to prove that the Old and the New
    World had prehistoric contact over the Atlantic Ocean. He and his international crew crossed
    the Atlantic Ocean in this vessel, but due to poor construction it disintegrated just before
    reaching the Carribean.
    Thor Heyerdahl was an extraordinary and complex person in many ways, both controversial and
    humble at the same time. He cared very much for the environment and reflected over the "big
    issues" in life as well as battling fiercely to prove his theories on diffusion and contacts between
    the great civilizations of the past.

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