![]() And now, the private Kon-Tiki museum housing the original Kon-Tiki raft is placed in Bygdøy, Oslo- Norway. Finally, they had a successful landfall on 7 August 1947 in the Tuamotus archipelago. On 28 April 1947, they started the journey and sailed the raft for 101 days. In order to prove the feasibility of this theory, he decided to mount the Kon-Tiki expedition in company of 5 other men. Nonetheless, this theory was in contrast to the ongoing theory at the time. He believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times via crossing the Pacific Ocean by means of balsa-wood rafts. ![]() Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002), the Norwegian explorer, in 1947 did his first major expedition over the Pacific Ocean, which brought him world-wide fame. ![]()
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