The voyage nearly ended in disaster for the ambitious crew, when they smashed into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands.īut all onboard managed to reach land, and return to South America safely.īut despite their attempts to copy the technologies and the route of the original expedition, the modern-day team have a very different mission.Ī crew of 12 Norwegians and one Peruvian are teaming up with a group of YouTubers in Hawaii, to broadcast the effects of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Over a period of 101 days, Heyerdahl and his five companions sailed across the Pacific Ocean, on board a balsa wood craft based on the illustrations of the Spanish conquistadores. He was determined to prove that the indigenous people had the technology to make the 4,300 mile journey. He would embark on a ground-breaking journey across the Pacific Ocean, on a fragile raft made only from materials that were available to the pre-Colombian people. In April 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl set out to prove his theory that the people of South America could have settled in the islands of Polynesia.
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