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1947 Wood raft makes 4,300-mile voyage On this day in 1947, Kon-Tiki, a balsa wood raft captained by Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, completes a 4,300-mile, 101-day journey from Peru to Raroia in the Tuamotu Archipelago, near Tahiti.Heyerdahl wanted to prove his theory that prehistoric South Americans could have colonized the... read more »
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07 August 2016
History for the day: 1947: Kon-tiki makes 4,300-mile voyage
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