The raft ran aground on an atoll in Polynesia 101 days later, and
Heyerdahl believed he had disproved the sceptics who had insisted such a journey was impossible.
Heyerdahl was Managing Partner as ISCO Group for many years and has served on several Boards including the IIC Partners Board of Directors.
11b, 11c, 11f), though some found by
Heyerdahl & Ferdon (1961) are larger.
Rejected by every publisher he approaches to print his unusual thesis,
Heyerdahl eventually decides the only way to prove it is to make the journey himself as the entire world watches.
Filmmakers Joachim Ronning told CBS News that
Heyerdahl believed that the oceans were roads, basically, 1,500 years ago and he spent ten years trying to get his theory accepted and when nobody believed him, he set out to prove himself correct.
Pic follows the voyage of Thor
Heyerdahl and his crew, who sailed across the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947 to prove that seafarers from South America had settled the Polynesian islands.
L'idee du depart a ete annoncee apres la reussite de l'hommage rendu par Safi au navigateur norvegien Thor
Heyerdahl, qui, parti du port de la ville le17 mai 1970 a bord d'un bateau en papyrus baptise RA, a atteint les Barbades pres du continent americain.
NORWEGIAN ADVENTURER Thor
Heyerdahl's 1947 Pacific crossing from South America to Polynesia in a self-made raft of balsa wood, and the book that followed, have fueled many generations' fascination with exploration.
Among the topics are the African Association, Antarctica, the voyage of the Beagle, Gertrude Bell, James Cook, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Charles Darwin, the Explorers Club, the Gobi Desert, Thor
Heyerdahl, the International Geophysical Year, the Leakey family, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley, Alexander Mackenzie, maps and mapmaking, the history of oceanography, Powell Expeditions, Russian exploration, Society of Women Geographers, and manned and unmanned space exploration.
Test scores from other countries have been reported less often, although this is of interest as there is some evidence that SDQ scores may vary by ethnicity (Achenbach et al., 2008; Sagatun, Lien, Sogaard, Bjertness, &
Heyerdahl, 2008; Woerner, Becker, & Rothenberger, 2004).