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Kon-Tiki

Kon-Tiki Online

  • Genres: Documentary
  • Release Date: 13/01/1950
  • Duration : 58 minutes
  • Director: Thor Heyerdahl
  • Production: Syncron-film AS, SF Studios
  • Country: Norway, Sweden
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Overview:

"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.

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