Thor Heyerdahl

Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian explorer, amateur ethnologist, and filmmaker best known for his 1947 expedition to a Polynesian island chain. The trip was made on a raft, constructed to test Heyerdahl's theories that ancient South American peoples traveled by sea and settled the islands. Kon-Tiki, the vessel's name, was used in the title of his bestselling book (The Kon-Tiki Expedition) and as the full title of Heyerdahl's film documentary of the expedition, released in 1951.
==References==
* The travel brochure for the 1984 computer game Welcome Aboard lists one of the stops as Frog Island, discovered by Thor Heydeho.
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