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Kon Tiki
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Kon Tiki: see Heyerdahl, Thor Heyerdahl, Thor (hā`ərdäl', hī`–), 1914–2002, Norwegian explorer and anthropologist, b. Larvik.
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His equally unconventional raft project, reminiscent of Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 voyage from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa raft, has its supporters.
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Thor Heyerdahl took his 1947 voyage on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki to show that South American Indians could have founded the Polynesian cultures.
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