The Kon-tiki Expedition
by Thor Heyerdahl · first published 1950
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The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
on “Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?” ↗If you haven't, you need to read Kon-Tiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kon-Tiki_Expedition:_By_Ra... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition Fascinating stuff!
on “North Pacific Logbook” ↗Along these lines let's not forget the Kon Tiki expedition. In 1947 Heyerdahl & crew wanted to show if, using a simple raft, South Americans could have reached Polynesia in the era prior to Columbus in 1492. Modern genetic analysis now seems to back up his idea…
on “To study ancient seafarers, researcher built a replica ship and sailed it” ↗The answer was suggested back in 1947 by Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-tiki expedition which demonstrated how it was possible to sail the 4,000 miles or more across the Pacific from South America to the Polynesian Islands in a simple raft.
on “How Ancient Humans Reached Remote South Pacific Islands” ↗Sounds like part of Thor Heyerdahl's larger theory of vikings everywhere. Part of the story was folks settling the Pacific from South America, recreated in the Kon-Tiki expedition. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have reached Polynesia during pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies…
on “When did the First Peoples arrive in America?” ↗I find it incredible that their drifting sent them in the same general direction that Thor Heyerdahl [0] suspected (and verified in the Kon-Tiki expedition) that one would go without any extra power of their own. The fact that a man who didn't even plan for the trip (or have any provisions) made it out alive even though he was virtually alone for the entire…
on “Lost at sea: a man who vanished for 14 months” ↗Then maybe I should have said "the Kon-Tiki expedition was relevant even if not exactly in the way we expected". Thor Heyerdahl has proven it is possible to cross this distance by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the…
on “First South Americans Were Australian Aborigines (1999)” ↗…should "from". The Polynesians are proven navigators but the natural current from Columbia/Ecuador to eastern Polynesia makes the alternative path quite plausible as demonstrated by Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition.
on “Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 years ago” ↗Check out Thor Heyerdahl and his Kon Tiki expedition. I believe that his theory was about religions and this pacific drift phenomena. There’s a very cool museum outside of Oslo. I think that their findings have eventually been proven less meaningful than…
on “Otokichi” ↗…Thor Heyerdahl demonstrating that sailing on a raft from South America to Polynesia is possible and a theory that now seems even more likely with the current DNA evidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon-Tiki_expedition
on “Polynesian DNA suggests epic voyage to South America 800 years ago” ↗