April 28, 1947: Kon-Tiki Sets Sail From Peru to Polynesia


	April 28, 1947: Kon-Tiki Sets Sail From Peru to Polynesia

Mohir

4-28-2008 12:03 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f6a302d1-b0fc-479a-9705-452a9df65676/A9C572CE-6320-424C-A351-E974C338DE2A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0428" href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0428" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0428"><STRONG>1947: </STRONG> Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmen leave Callao, Peru, on a balsa-wood raft. They're hoping to prove that ancient South Americans could have sailed to Polynesia.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0428"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/F3105B41-33D3-43CD-B065-DA51DA39CA9A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0428">Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnologist who crossed the boundaries of academic disciplines and ruffled plenty of feathers in the process. He <A href="http://www.plu.edu/~ryandp/AIP.html" linkindex="41" set="yes">theorized that South Americans had visited and traded with Polynesia</A>, not that they were the primary population source. Scholars derided him and maintained that South American balsa-wood craft would get waterlogged and sink before they could cross the Pacific.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0428"><P>So Heyerdahl built the <CITE>Kon-Tiki</CITE> and named it after the pre-Inca sun god. The 18-by-45-foot deck was made of nine balsa trunks lashed with hemp rope. A 29-foot A-frame mast held a 15-by-18-foot mainsail and a topsail. The raft also had a mizzen sail and a long steering oar at the stern. A small cabin and some of the deck were made of bamboo. <A href="http://www.answers.com/topic/kon-tiki-1?cat=technology" linkindex="42" set="yes">No metal was used in the construction</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A9C572CE-6320-424C-A351-E974C338DE2A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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