NORWAY Oslo The Kon-Tiki Museum, Bygdøy houses vessels and maps from the Kon-Tiki expeditions of explorer Thor Heyerdahl

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NORWAY - photograph by GLYN GENIN Oslo Kon Tiki Museum This museum is dedicated to modern Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. The museum contains two boats Heyerdahl used, the Kon Tiki, he sailed from South America to Polynesia and the RA II he sailed across the Atlantic. Both journeys helped prove that pre-historic America could have had contact with other cultures.

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Photo credit: © Glyn Genin / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: boat, kon, pacific, polynesia, polynesian, ra, reed, sail, straw, tiki, voyage