Kon-Tiki
The Amazing Adventure Of Six Men On A Raft Across The Pacific! True! Thrilling!
"Kon-Tiki" was the name of a wooden raft used by six Scandinavian scientists, led by Thor Heyerdahl, to make a 101-day journey from South America to the Polynesian Islands. The purpose of the expedition was to prove Heyerdal's theory that the Polynesian Islands were populated from the east- specifically Peru- rather than from the west (Asia) as had been the theory for hundreds of years. Heyerdahl made a study of the winds and tides in the Pacific, and by simulating conditions as closely as possible to those he theorized the Peruvians encountered, set out on the voyage.
- 7.4
- 1950
- Released
- 0h 58m
Thor Heyerdahl
Himself
Herman Watzinger
HimselfErik Hesselberg
HimselfKnut Haugland
HimselfTorstein Raaby
HimselfBengt Danielsson
HimselfBen Grauer
NarratorReleased
no
- #parrot
- #ocean crossing
- #raft
- #shark
- #south pacific
- #polynesia
- #ocean voyage
- #pacific ocean
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Narrated by expedition leader Thor Heyerdahl, this hour long feature presents quite an impressive observation of just how half a dozen sailors embarked half way across the Pacific Ocean aboard a raft in which no metal or even wooden nails were used. Their plan was to sail, or follow the currents, all the way from the coast of Peru to Polynesia and they had to carry all that they might need. That’s