Thor Heyerdahl KStJ (Norwegian pronunciation: [tuːr ˈhæ̀ɪəɖɑːɫ]; 6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background...
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Kon-Tiki expedition (category Thor Heyerdahl)
writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name. Heyerdal's book on the expedition...
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Thor Heyerdahl is a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate of the Royal Norwegian Navy. Built by the Spanish shipbuilders Navantia, in Ferrol, Thor Heyerdahl was...
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Canada in the 1950s. Thor Heyerdahl was his father's cousin. Heyerdahl also speaks Norwegian and studied at the University of Oslo. Heyerdahl is primarily...
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Kon-Tiki (2012 film) (category Films set in the Pacific Ocean)
about the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition. The film was mainly shot on the island of Malta. The role of Thor Heyerdahl is played by Pål Sverre Hagen. The film...
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Reed boat (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Corfu. The explorations and investigations of the Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl have resulted in a better understanding of the construction...
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Pyramids of Güímar (category History of the Canary Islands)
adventurer and publisher, Thor Heyerdahl, became aware of the "Canarian Pyramids" by reading an article written by Francisco Padrón in the Tenerife newspaper...
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Easter Island (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl argued that Rapa was Easter Island's original name and that the Bass Islands' Rapa (Rapa Iti) was named by refugees from it. The phrase...
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Jacqueline Beer (category French emigrants to the United States)
Chair of the Board of Directors of the Thor Heyerdahl Institute, located in Larvik, Norway. Her second husband was scientist Thor Heyerdahl. She was sometimes...
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Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park is an 1,800-acre climate park located in Ayeyarwady Region of Myanmar. The park is situated at the delta region of Irrawaddy...
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Thor Heyerdahl (named after Thor Heyerdahl), originally named Tinka, later Marga Henning, Silke, and Minnow, was built as a freight carrying motor ship...
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Moai (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
however, the experiment was ended early due to damage to the statue bases from chipping. Despite the early end to the experiment, Thor Heyerdahl estimated...
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Pål Sverre Hagen (category Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni)
screen actor. He is perhaps best known internationally for playing Thor Heyerdahl in the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film Kon-Tiki. From 2019 to 2023...
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Thor Heyerdahl Upper Secondary School (Norwegian: Thor Heyerdahl videregående skole) is an upper secondary school in Larvik, Norway, named for the explorer...
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opened. The museum was originally built to house the Kon-Tiki, a raft of balsa wood of pre-Columbian model that Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl used...
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Yuri Senkevich (category Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples)
equivalent degree). Senkevich became famous in the USSR and worldwide for sailing with Thor Heyerdahl on the Ra Expedition. Senkevich was born to Russian...
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the expedition represents a scientific continuation of Thor Heyerdahl's experiments in recreated maritime technology. The raft was named after the Māori...
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The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas (Norwegian: Kon-Tiki ekspedisjonen) is a 1948 book by the Norwegian writer Thor Heyerdahl. It recounts...
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Sverdrup, Helge Ingstad and Thor Heyerdahl. In June 2023, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence published The Military Advice of the Chief of Defence 2023, in...
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Kon-Tiki (1950 film) (category Films directed by Thor Heyerdahl)
is a Norwegian documentary film about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway,...
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the migration occurred accidentally when seafarers became lost and drifted to uninhabited shores.[citation needed] In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl sailed the Kon-Tiki...
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Polynesia (redirect from History of the Polynesian people)
Navigation and Voyaging, The Polynesian Society Inc. p. 5. Andersson, Axel (2010). A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition....
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MS Vana Tallinn (redirect from M/S Thor Heyerdahl)
under the names MS Nord Estonia and MS Thor Heyerdahl. The Dana Regina was ordered in 1969 by DFDS, the oldest operational Danish shipping company. The ship...
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Larvik (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
known as the hometown of Thor Heyerdahl.: 30 It is also home to Bøkeskogen, the northernmost beech tree forest in the world. Larvik is the home of Norway's...
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Jakten på Odin (redirect from The search for Odin)
The Search for Odin (Norwegian: Jakten på Odin) is the project title of Thor Heyerdahl's last series of archaeological excavations, which took place in...
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Bjørn Wegge (section Thor Heyerdahl)
Azerbaijan and the theories linking ancient Scandinavia and Azerbaijan, as propounded by Thor Heyerdahl. In Azerbaijan he initiated the Kish project in...
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Abora (expeditions) (category Water transport in the Mediterranean)
inspired by previous trans-oceanic expeditions by the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl. Main aim of the Abora expeditions was to prove that a keel-less...
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opened during the Thor Heyerdahl Film Festival week, on May 12–20, 2014. It is dedicated to the commemoration of his 100 anniversary. The museum, which...
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Thor Hansen (1947–2018), Norwegian poker player Thor Harris (born 1965), American musician Thor Henning (1894–1967), Swedish swimmer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002)...
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Aku-Aku (category Books by Thor Heyerdahl)
Aku-Aku: the Secret of Easter Island is a 1957 book by Thor Heyerdahl published in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish, and in French and English the following...
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