Kon-Tiki Sets Sail: Proving Ancient Oceanic Migration
Thor Heyerdahl and his five crewmates launched a balsa wood raft from Peru to demonstrate that ancient South Americans could have reached Polynesia by drifting on ocean currents. Their successful 101-day voyage across the Pacific proved that such long-distance migration was physically possible, challenging prevailing theories about how the Pacific islands were settled.
April 28, 1947
79 years ago
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