He then considered that the Phoenicians sailed across the Atlantic many centuries before Columbus “discovered” the “West Indies”. This proved that the Incas had the ships capable of navigating the vast distances of the Pacific. He left Callao on the 28 th April 1947 and sailed it for 6,900 Km across the Pacific to Tuamotu Islands arriving on the 7 th August 1947. He built the Kon-Tiki Balsa raft in Peru.
Kon-Tiki – Taken from: The Kon-Tiki Expedition By raft across the South Seas by Thor Heyerdahl. He led archaeological expeditions to the Galapagos and Easter Islands. He served with the free Norwegian Air Force as an officer in the special parachute unit operating in the Arctic Norway. He and his wife studied the possibility that the Pacific Islanders could have migrated from South America many centuries before. After studying at the Oslo University he went to the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific. Thor Heyerdahl was born in Norway in 1914.
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