Kon-Tiki

Duration: 75 min.

Year Published: 1951

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Documentary record of a 48-day raft journey across the Pacific Ocean made by Thor Heyerdahl and five Scandinavian scientists in 1947. Explains that the raft used was a reproduction of the type of craft believed to have been used by Peruvians who journeyed from South America to Polynesia centuries ago.

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