Wikipedia English: Kon-Tiki (credit photo to Chell Hill)

Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. See original article and references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki Copyright: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License