Zeeshan Anwar
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Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Sea Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log
In 1947, against the best navigational advice, the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft to test his theory that ancient South American cultures could have reached Polynesia. The frail vessel, called Kon-Tiki, crossed several thousand nautical miles of the Pacific in 103 days and showed that his anthropological hunch was at least feasible.
By Zeeshan Anwar 7 months ago in History
