Thor Heyerdahl And The Kon-Tiki

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In 1947 a Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl with his crew went into a journey across the Pacific Ocean using the Kon-Tiki, which is a raft made of materials and technologies available to those people at that time with modern equipment. Heyerdahl wanted to prove that they are able to make that long journey by the raft itself even without the modern equipment they were having in it such as a radio, in order to prove his theory that the South Sea Islands were originally colonized by South Americans. Heyerdahl and a small team went to Peru, and made the Kon-Tiki from native materials in a native style by Spanish conquistadores. The main body was made of balsa tree lashed together with hemp ropes. The bow was made of Pine splashboards.