THE KON-TIKI RAFT, on which six Norwegian and Swedish scientists left America in an attempt to prove that the South American Incas carried their influence to Polynesia, has been stranded on the Tuamotu Archipelago, after drifting for 4360 miles. It was reported that a ship would be sent from Tahiti, to rescue the scientists. At left the raft is shown, bedecked with flags of several nations.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1947, Page 7
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66THE KON-TIKI RAFT, on which six Norwegian and Swedish scientists left America in an attempt to prove that the South American Incas carried their influence to Polynesia, has been stranded on the Tuamotu Archipelago, after drifting for 4360 miles. It was reported that a ship would be sent from Tahiti, to rescue the scientists. At left the raft is shown, bedecked with flags of several nations. Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1947, Page 7
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